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. And the people... Public Speaking for Business Men - Page 240by William George Hoffman - 1923 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in their rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute... | |
| 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... | |
| 1855 - 724 pages
...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...a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone. They are neither man nor woman; They are neither brute nor liumim, They are Ghouls: And their king... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...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...Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls: And their... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...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...Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — • They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...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 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
...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...Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...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 ! For every...Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their... | |
| 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...Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neither hrute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their... | |
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