 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 - Page 666edited by - 1882 - 862 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 394 pages
...! 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 paean of the bells ; And he dances, and he yells, Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! \Yhat 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 paean of the bells— And he dances and he yells ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - English literature - 1883 - 932 pages
...bells ! Hear the tolling of the bellsIron 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 pasan from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the psean of the bells I And he dances and he... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...! 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 psan from the bells 1 And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells ; And he dances, and he... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 222 pages
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells 1 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 paean of the bells ! And he dances and he... | |
 | Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells I 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 peean from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the psean of the bells! And he dances and he... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...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 psean of the bells! And he dances and he... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pages
...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...king it is who tolls; And he rolls/ rolls/ rolls/ A paean of the bells — And his bosom proudly swells With the paean of the bells — And he dances/... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...the melancholy menace of their tone1 For every sound that floats From the rust within their throata Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people They...is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A psean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells 1 And he dances and he... | |
 | Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...their throats Is a groan. \ And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, AH alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that...from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the psean of the bells! And he dances and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme,... | |
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