In the silence of the night How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people, They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone,... Scribners Monthly - Page 1001880Full view - About this book
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...knell.*, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the belli — And the people-ah ! the pe»ple — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muflled monotone. Feel a glory in to rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people! — They that dwell...They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A psean from the bells ! And his... | |
| 1855 - 724 pages
...menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people— ah, the people — They that dwell up...neither man nor woman; They are neither brute nor liumim, They are Ghouls: And their king It is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A piean... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells ! And his... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...their throats And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, • Is a groan.. All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that...muffled monotone, .., Feel a glory in so rolling ,. On j;he human heart a stone— They are' ! 'neither man nor woman— They are neither brute nor human—... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells ! And his... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the "people — They that dwell...They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the b^ells ! And... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groau. And the people — ah, the people— They that dwell up...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Glionls : Anil their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...They are neither man nor woman — They are neither hrute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the stceplu -» All alone And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that...stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neithnr brüte nor human — They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls,... | |
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