Bells: An AnthologyMary Jane Taber |
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... prayer . Out the stopple stave ! God the building save ! Roaring , smoking through the pass , Shoots the fiery , swelling mass . To the earth now we've consigned it , Safely lodged within the clay ; Beautiful as we designed it , Will it ...
... prayer . Out the stopple stave ! God the building save ! Roaring , smoking through the pass , Shoots the fiery , swelling mass . To the earth now we've consigned it , Safely lodged within the clay ; Beautiful as we designed it , Will it ...
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... prayer : Hail Mary full of grace , pray St. Peter pray for us . St. Catherine pray for us . for us . Jesus of Nazareth have mercy upon us . Then comes a period of rather superfluous loyalty to the monarch . At Bury , Sussex , for Queen ...
... prayer : Hail Mary full of grace , pray St. Peter pray for us . St. Catherine pray for us . for us . Jesus of Nazareth have mercy upon us . Then comes a period of rather superfluous loyalty to the monarch . At Bury , Sussex , for Queen ...
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... prayers offered up by the holy fathers , a miracle was wrought and the robbers were unable to leave their hold on the ropes . This state of affairs was depicted by Cruikshank as may be seen above . Chapter V BELL LEGENDS THE LEGEND OF ...
... prayers offered up by the holy fathers , a miracle was wrought and the robbers were unable to leave their hold on the ropes . This state of affairs was depicted by Cruikshank as may be seen above . Chapter V BELL LEGENDS THE LEGEND OF ...
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... prayers . The sound of the bell reached the ears of the retreating Scots and guided them to the priory . They pillaged ... prayer , the Belfry of Durham Cathedral was struck by lightning and set on fire ; but though the flames raged all ...
... prayers . The sound of the bell reached the ears of the retreating Scots and guided them to the priory . They pillaged ... prayer , the Belfry of Durham Cathedral was struck by lightning and set on fire ; but though the flames raged all ...
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... prayer , St. Michael ! and spare My husband's life . " quoth she ; And to thine altar we will go , Six marks to give to thee . " Richard Penlake repeated the vow , For woundily sick was he ; " Save me , St. Michael ! and we will go ...
... prayer , St. Michael ! and spare My husband's life . " quoth she ; And to thine altar we will go , Six marks to give to thee . " Richard Penlake repeated the vow , For woundily sick was he ; " Save me , St. Michael ! and we will go ...
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Abbot of Aberbrothock ancient Angelus belfry BELL OF ATRI Bellman Bells of St bells ring bless Bow Bells cast Cathedral Chapter chime Christmas church bells clang crune Curfew cursed Cusha dark death Ding-dong doth Enderby England eyes float gold Gomez Gomez band hang hath hear heart heaven holy honore Sancti horse hour hung Inchcape Rock jangling King Henry King Henry VI knell Lindis listen little Jackdaw Lord Mayor Mayor of London merrily Michael's morning motto never nice little boy night o'er Othello passing-bell peal pounds pray prayer Queen quoth Rebecca Richard Penlake Richard Whittington ring to-night ringers river Lee robbers ROBERT SOUTHEY rope round rung Say the Bells Scene Shandon sing song soul sound steeple sweet swell swinging tell thou tinkle Tintagel Toby Veck tolling tongue tower town crier unto uppe voice Whittington wild
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Page 130 - With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Page 107 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 38 - Leave your meadow grasses mellow, Mellow, mellow; Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow; Come uppe, Whitefoot, come uppe, Lightfoot; Quit...
Page 148 - IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town ! Ring, 0 bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime.
Page 41 - Lindis raging sped. It swept with thunderous noises loud; Shaped like a curling snow-white cloud, Or like a demon in a shroud. And rearing Lindis backward pressed, Shook all her trembling bankes amaine ; Then madly at the eygre's breast Flung uppe her.
Page 10 - What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 9 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells — What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 97 - The great Lord Cardinal turns at the sight Of these nice little boys dressed all in white : From his finger he draws His costly turquoise ; And, not thinking at all about little Jackdaws, Deposits it straight By the side of his plate, While the nice little boys on his Eminence wait ; Till, when nobody's dreaming of any such thing, That little Jackdaw hops off with the ring.
Page 118 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 135 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!