 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...  Bells: An Anthology - Page 9edited by - 1912 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...convolution of language, is seemingly supernatural. " THE BELLS. Hear the sledges with the bellsSilver bells ! "What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinUe, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! "While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside tho King of Heaven." HEAR the sledges with the bellsSilver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy nir of night! While the stars that oversprinklo All the heavens, seem to twinkle , With a crystalline... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...grace, thy more than beauty. Shall be an endless theme of praise. And love — a simple duty. THE BELLS. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells !...that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle D With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - Scandinavia - 1853 - 370 pages
...windows. You can hear them in these lines : — " Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver tells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells !...oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a christaline delight, Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Kunic rhyme, To the tintabulation that... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...power he shows in maintaining the completeness of the harmonv between the idea and its expression. Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells !...tinkle In the icy air of night ! While the stars that ovcraprinkle AH the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time,... | |
 | 1853 - 774 pages
...which they describe ? >\ e can only give the first and second divisions of the poem : — "THE BELLS. " Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells 1 How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night I While the stars that oversprinkle All... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...black throne reigns upright, I have wander'd home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule. THE BELLS. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells!...merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinklc, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...what, my love, I cannot write unless he 's sent above !) LESSON CLXXVH. The Bells. — EDOAB A. POE. the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystaline delight , Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Kunic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...convolution of language, is seemingly supernatural. " THE BELLS. Hear the sledges with the bellsSilver tolls! What a world of merriment their melody foretells !...icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle AH the he A ven.s, seem to twiukle With a crystalline delight. Keeping time, time, time, In a sort... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...Intrinsically precious ; to the foot Treacherous and false ; it smiled, and it was cold. Confer. THE BELLS.2 i. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells !...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; (1) Alas, &c. — This ahrupt and striking transition to the moral hearings of the suhject is in Cowper's... | |
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