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 At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats... Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Page 180by Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the 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...tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in their rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute... | |
| Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1897 - 706 pages
...the yells — Newsboy yells ! What a world of eager heed their bellowing compels ! In the gas-glare of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From those husky urchin throats Brings a groan. And the nippers — ah! those nippers^— Those shrill shouters,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...knell.*, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the belli — And the people-ah ! the pe»ple — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muflled monotone. Feel a glory in to rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...Hear the tolling of tho bells—. Iron bells ! ' fj • What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver...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.. All alone, And... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...the 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...that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groau. And the people — ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling,... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...the 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...people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the stceplu -» All alone And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in... | |
| 1855 - 1428 pages
...What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night. How we shiver witli affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For...alone. And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muftit'd monotone, Feel a glory in no rolling On the human heart a stone. They are neither man nor... | |
| 1855 - 1416 pages
...monody compels ! In the silence of the ni?ht, How we fh'lver with affright At the melancholy inciinee of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throat ti In a trnmn. And the people -ah. the people- — Tliey that dwell up in the steeple, All alone*... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 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...that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their... | |
| 1857 - 594 pages
...bells ! ***** Hear the tolling of the bells 1 Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver...a groan. And the people— Ah, the people — They ! bit dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone,... | |
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