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... A New Library of Poetry and Song - Page 657edited by - 1877 - 934 pagesFull view - About this book
| H. R. Schermerhorn - Elocution - 1871 - 124 pages
...bells, bells — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! 4. Hear the tolling of the bellsIron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody...From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart... | |
| Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...tolling of the bellsIron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! THE BELLS. 399 In the silence of the night. How we shiver with affright...steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 418 pages
...Like one who wraps the drapery of bis coach About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. IV. Very Low. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What...floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. 2. 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 432 pages
...Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dr&ams. IV. Very Low. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What...that floats From the rust within their throats Is a gr6an. 2. "Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still... | |
| Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...— Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody In the silence of the night, [compels ! How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace...steeple, All alone ; And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells, — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! rv. Hear the tolling of the bells, — Iron bells ! What...their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rast within their throats Is a groan. And the people, — ah, the people, — They that dwell up in... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1872 - 438 pages
...of solemn thought their monody com pen I In the silence of the night, How we shiver with all'right At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every...steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muilled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On tiic human heart a stone — They are neither... | |
| Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells, bells, In the clamour and the clangour of the bells . Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells...steeple, All alone. And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— In the clamour and the clangour of the bells! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What...steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells, — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! IV. отрГехюп ; and faster than his tongue Did...years he 's tall ; His leg is but so so ; and yet 't In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone, — They arc neither... | |
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