 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
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 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 - 1866 - 200 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... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...\Vhat a world of solemn thought their monody compels I In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone !...— They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, o And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone I For every sound that floats From the rust within their...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...1 In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone 1 For every sound that floats From the rust within their...alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muflied "monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1866 - 488 pages
...home thoughtfully, musing upon the probability of invisible hands pulling at his bell-rope — those " People — ah, the people. They that dwell up in the...alone ; And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in BO rolling On the human heart a stone ; They are neither man nor... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - 1866 - 204 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. •In that mumed_monotone,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 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... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 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 woman... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...bells — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every...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... | |
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