 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 Is a groan.  THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS - Page 54by CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905Full view - About this book
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...bells, bells— In the clamour and the clangour of the bells ! ir. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody...the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 422 pages
...the anger of the 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...ah ! the people! They that dwell up in the steeple, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 pages
...the bells, In the clamor and the clangor of the bells 1 Hear the tolling of the bells, Iron bells I What a world of solemn thought their monody compels'...throats, Is a groan. And the people — ah ! the people 1 They thai dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 pages
...Bells, bells, bells— 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...the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...Hear the tolling of '.he bells — Iron bells! rt'hat a world of solemn thought their monody compels I In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright...the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...bells, bells — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their...the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - 1879 - 256 pages
...bells, 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...the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
...bells! bells! — in the clamour and the clangour of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their...the people — they that dwell up in the steeple, all alone, and who tolling, tolling, tolling, in that muffled monotone, feel a glory in so rolling... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...Bells, bells, bells— 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...the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels I In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright...the people -— They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling... | |
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