Iron bells! 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 every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. American Poems (1625-1892) - Page 227edited by - 1912 - 669 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1855 - 724 pages
...bells, Bells, bells, bells ! In clamour and the clangour of the bells! Hear the tolling of the bells, Iron Bells ! What a world of solemn thought their...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... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...Bells, bells, bells — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody...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... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...Bells, bells, bells— In the clamour and the clangour of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their...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,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...the clamour and the clangour of the bells! Hear the tolling of tho bells—. Iron bells ! ' fj • What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!...with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats And the people—ah, the people—... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...bells, bells — In the clamour and the clangour of the bells ! Iv. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their...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,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...Bells, bells, bells— In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody...with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groau. And the people — ah,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...1 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...the "people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...! In the silenee of lhe night. How we shiver with affright At the melaneholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their...the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...Bells, bells, bells — In the clamourand the clangour of the bells! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...Bells, bells, bells — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their...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,... | |
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