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 Household Book of Poetry - Sida 666redigerad av - 1882 - 862 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1872 - 514 sidor
...tolling of the bellsIron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! THE BELLS. 399 In the silence of the night. How we shiver with affright...is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A pagan from the hells ! And his merry bosom swells ' With the paean of the bells ! And he dances and... | |
| Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 sidor
...— Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody In the silence of the night, [compels ! How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace...is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A pcean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the pEean of the bells ! And he dances and he... | |
| Paul Reeves - 1872 - 236 sidor
...their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — (67) They that dwell up in the steeple, And who tolling, tolling-, tolling, In that muffled...from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells ! And he dances, and he yells ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme,... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 sidor
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright...from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the pasan of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme,... | |
| Star reciter - 1873 - 330 sidor
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels In the silence of the night ; How we shiver with affright...is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A pcean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the ptcan of the bells t And he dances, and... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 sidor
...In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the mel'ancholy menace of their tone I For every sound that floats From the rust within their...from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells I 1 Mon' o dy, a species of poem of was supposed to prey upon human a mournful character,... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 sidor
...world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night how we shiver with afiright at the melancholy menace of their tone ; for every...is who tolls ; and he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls a psean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells with the psean of the bells ! And he dances and he... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 sidor
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright...is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A psean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the pasan of the bells ! And he dances, and... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 298 sidor
...IT. Hear the tolling of the bellsIron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their inonody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright,...is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A psean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the psean of the bells ! And he dances, and... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - 1875 - 584 sidor
...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...king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Eolls A pasan from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells with the paean of the bells I And he dances,... | |
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