 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...  Works - Page 25by Edgar Allan Poe - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 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
...clamour and the clangour of the bells! Hear the tolling of tho bells—. Iron bells ! ' fj • What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In...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
...bells— In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In...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
...— In the clamourand the clangour of the bells! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In...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
...bells ! In clamour and the clangour of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells, Iron Hells! 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 every sound that floats From the rust within... | |
 | 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
...In the clamour and the clangour of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In...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
...the rh yming and the chiming of the bells ! ***** Hear the tolling of the bells 1 Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In...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,... | |
 | 1857 - 528 pages
...back to my memory, as I had heard him repeat them. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In...affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For erery sound that floats From the rust within their throat* Is a groan. And as Death continued, the... | |
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