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
| 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... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 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. They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In ft clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, Ina mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In the clamorousappealing Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, Now — now to sit... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 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,... | |
| Russell Thacher Trall - 1875 - 132 pages
...! What a tale of tCrror, now, their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak,...mercy of the fire, In. a mad expostulation with the dSaf and frantic flre Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire And a resolute endeavor,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous ap|iealing to the mercy of the tire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire....resolute endeavor Now — now to sit or never, By the »irte of the pale-faced moon. O, the bells, bells, bells, What n tale their terror tells Of Despair... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...What a tale of terror, now, their turbulen<'y tells ! In the startled ear of night How they s<:ream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak,...can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous ap|>ealing to the mercy of the tin1, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire. 1/eaping... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 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, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, FOE. Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, NOW — now... | |
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