How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory... Poems - Page 123by William Cowper - 1826Full view - About this book
| William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 208 pages
...carillons. The effett of bells has been often described, but by none more beautifully than COWPER: — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! . With easy fores it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon...and louder still> . Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 216 pages
...beautifully than COWPER: — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the car In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heajd A kindred... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...fumes beneath his nose: the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air. VILLAGE BELLS. HOW soft the musick of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, new dying all away, Now pealing loud again, arid louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where mem'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred... | |
| 1802 - 570 pages
...tenderness.' The Poet, ол a similar occasion, thus expressed himsejf: Т " How soft the music oí those village bells "* Falling at intervals upon the...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comer, on," &c. The idea of the lamented Bard is here evidently imitated, but hy (to means in a lervile... | |
| Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. 5 How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon...sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and linider still, Clear ami sonorous, x.? the gale comes on ! 10 With easy force it opens all the cells... | |
| 1801 - 432 pages
...complete felicity. The ringing of bells heard at a distance is thus pourtrayed — How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweer, now dying a!l away, Now pealing loud again, and louder siill, ' \ Clear and sonorous as the... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - English poetry - 1805 - 216 pages
...carillons. The cffect of bells has been often described, but by none more beautifully than COWPER : — " How soft the musick of those village bells, Falling...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! ' With easy force it opens all the cells Where mcm'ry slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...chord in unison with what we hear - Is touched within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon...and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard A kindred... | |
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