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
| Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 542 pages
...dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feol a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone —...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 Eunic rhyme,... | |
| Gems - 1884 - 408 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,... | |
| R. T. Trall - 1996 - 116 pages
...thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night. How we shiver with affright At the mPl ancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...rolls, rolls, rolls, A paean from the bells! And his m6rry bosom swells With the paean of the bells I And he dances and he yells ; Keeping tune, time, time,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 1975 - 1042 pages
...Hear the tolling of the hells — Iron hells ! What a world of solemn thought their melody compels! intage Books hells! And his merry bosom swells With the piean of the hells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping... | |
| Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...bells! 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,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2004 - 450 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...who tolls: — And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A pean from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the p;ean of the bells! And he dances, and he... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1984 - 1440 pages
...monody compels! In the silence of the night How we shiver with affright At the melancholy meaning of the . Pean from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the Pean of the bells! And he dances and he yells;... | |
| Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 pages
...bells! rv 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...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,... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, '37 In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling...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,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 2003 - 170 pages
...bells! IV 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 pa>an from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances and he... | |
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