Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous... Littell's Living Age - Page 3731849Full view - About this book
| Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak,...frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a resolute endeavour Now — now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells,... | |
| Frank Luzerne - 1872 - 332 pages
...They can only utiriuk, shriek, Oat of tone. In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire. In я mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire....endeavor, Now, now to sit, or never, By the side of the pale faced moon. The sublimely terrific grandeur of such a spectacle of lightning flames as pierced... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...terror, now, their turbulency tells t In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright I Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek,...clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expo.stuliit.ion with the deaf and frantic fire^ Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire,... | |
| 1872 - 900 pages
...speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In the clamorous appealing tothemcrcyof thefire, rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. " Huddup ! " said the parson. — 01Г went îfow — now to sit or never, Bv the side of the pale-faced moon. 0 the bells, bells, bells, What... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...bells! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells' In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They...higher, higher, With a desperate desire And a resolute endeavour Now — now to sit, or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh the bells, bells, bells!... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...What a tale of terror, now, their 'turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night how they scream out their affright ! Too much 'horrified to speak,...'frantic fire, leaping higher, higher, higher, with a resolute 'endeavour now — now to sit or never, by the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells,... | |
| Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak,...shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the merey of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher,... | |
| 1873 - 350 pages
...lovely poem of Poe's, ' The Bells,' aloud, when I came to those lines about the fire-bells — ' In « clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a...mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,' I was reading my very best, and I could see that papa was holding his very breath to hear me, when... | |
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