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... The Critical Essays of a Country Parson - Page 259by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 pages
...appreciated fifty years hence than it is now." НEчE the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! W bat a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, lu the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heaveus, seem te twinkle With a... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...precious ; to the foot Treacherous and fake ; it smiled, and it was cold. Cowper. THE BELLS.2 i. HEAB, the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ;. (1) Alas, &c. — This abrupt and striking transition to the moral bearings of the subject is in... | |
| Henry Coppée - English language - 1859 - 380 pages
...As a very successful attempt in this study of Harmony, we may cite Poe's "Bells." One almost hears the " Sledges with the bells — Silver bells —...foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy ear of night !" And then " The mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!" But we should transcribe the whole... | |
| England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." WORDSWORTH. Efrt pis. i. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells!...Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...soft ear, Will last to be a precious stone When all your world of beauty's gone. HERRKK. THE BELLS. i. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells !...crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...child's sub curseth deeper in the silence Than the strong man in his wrath! THE BELLS.- EDO AR A. Poi. Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells —...crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...of soul, and chained of limb, What is your carnival to him ? Ex. CXXVIL— THE BELLS. EDGAR A. FOE. HEAR the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells...the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twingle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation... | |
| Sarah Helen Whitman - Literary Criticism - 1860 - 96 pages
...heard to ring so merrily before ? Listen ! " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night I While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens...Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling... | |
| Sarah Helen Whitman - Poets, American - 1860 - 42 pages
...Listen I * How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night I While the stars that ovenprinkk All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline...sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that go musically wells From the bells, bulls, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and... | |
| Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...which the different occasions of their use suggest.] - 1. Ilii.ui the sledges with the bells' — a. Silver' bells' — What a world of merriment their...How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night1 ! While the stars that oversprinklo All the heavens', seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight'... | |
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