 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, And...  The Irish quarterly review - Page 5771855Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1897 - 706 pages
...What a world of eager heed their bellowing compels ! In the gas-glare of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From those husky urchin throats Brings a groan. And the nippers — ah! those nippers^— Those shrill shouters,... | |
 | 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
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright, At the melancholy menace of their tone!...alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone !...alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone !...sound that floats From the rust within their throats And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, • Is a groan.. All alone, And... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone !...alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels 1 In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone !...alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...thought their monody compels ! In the silenee of lhe night. How we shiver with affright At the melaneholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone !...that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groau. And the people — ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For...people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the stceplu -» All alone And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in... | |
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