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... Class-book of English poetry - Page 280by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...humble prayer, That they may die like him whose bones are mouldering there. THE BELLS.— Pox. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
| Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...mountain-tops reflect it calm and clear; The plain is yet in shade, but day i* near." H1 THE BELLS. rEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What...crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...BELLS. — Poe. Time quick and moderate. — Middle Pitch. — Pure, ringing, metallic Quality. Hear the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells ! What...crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
| John Blaikie - History - 1870 - 306 pages
...his poems generally, " carved like a cameo :" — " Hear the sledges with the hells, Silver hells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells,...crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Eunic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, hells, hells, hells,... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...breast— And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. THE BELLS. Edgar A. Pi*. Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What...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... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1870 - 686 pages
...bells, How they tinkle, linkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! Wbile the stars that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintfnabulaüon thai so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells bells,... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 pages
...thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home ! J. Montgomery OUL THK SELLS. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells J How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that over sprinkle All... | |
| English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...of air as sweet ? Or his own voice awake him with its sound ? HARTLEY COLERIDGE. H1 Hie Bells. rEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells — What...crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - American literature - 1871 - 342 pages
...Queen o' the May. 3. Hear the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells ! What a world of mSrriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle,...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. IL Middle. 1. But true expression, like the unchanging sin, Clears and impr6ves whate'er it shines... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 200 pages
...knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life. THE BELLS. 1. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. In the icy air of niyht ! THE JiELLK. While the stars that overspriukle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline... | |
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