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<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]<br /> This is an index for ringing poems, for which there are many around... if you know of any, please add a page for them here!<br /> <br /> See also:<br /> <br /> [https://engdic.org/poems-about-bells/ 10 Best Short Poems about Bells (EngDic)]<br /> <br /> [https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bell-poems/ (20) Bell Poems (Discover Poetry)]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Category:Ringing_Poems&diff=2572 2026-07-28T10:40:12Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]<br /> This is an index for ringing poems, for which there are many around... if you know of any, please add a page for them here!<br /> <br /> See also:<br /> <br /> [https://engdic.org/poems-about-bells/ 10 Best Short Poems about Bells (EngDic)]<br /> <br /> [https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bell-poems/ Bell Poems - 20 (Discover Poetry)]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Category:Ringing_Poems&diff=2571 2026-07-28T10:39:57Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]<br /> This is an index for ringing poems, for which there are many around... if you know of any, please add a page for them here!<br /> <br /> See also:<br /> [https://engdic.org/poems-about-bells/ 10 Best Short Poems about Bells (EngDic)]<br /> <br /> [https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bell-poems/ Bell Poems - 20 (Discover Poetry)]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Category:Ringing_Poems&diff=2570 2026-07-28T10:39:39Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]<br /> This is an index for ringing poems, for which there are many around... if you know of any, please add a page for them here!<br /> <br /> See also:<br /> [https://engdic.org/poems-about-bells/ 10 Best Short Poems about Bells (EngDic)]<br /> [https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/bell-poems/ Bell Poems - 20 (Discover Poetry)]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2569 2026-07-28T10:31:23Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> <br /> Silver bells!<br /> <br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> <br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> <br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> <br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> <br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> <br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> <br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> <br /> Golden bells!<br /> <br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> <br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> <br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> <br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> <br /> And all in tune,<br /> <br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> <br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> <br /> On the moon!<br /> <br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> <br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> <br /> How it swells!<br /> <br /> How it dwells<br /> <br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> <br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> <br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> <br /> Brazen bells!<br /> <br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> <br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> <br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> <br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> <br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> <br /> Out of tune,<br /> <br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> <br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> <br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> <br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> <br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> <br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> <br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> <br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> <br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> <br /> Of Despair!<br /> <br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> <br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> <br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> <br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> <br /> By the twanging,<br /> <br /> And the clanging,<br /> <br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> <br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> <br /> In the jangling,<br /> <br /> And the wrangling.<br /> <br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> <br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> <br /> Iron bells!<br /> <br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> <br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> <br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> <br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> <br /> For every sound that floats<br /> <br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> <br /> Is a groan.<br /> <br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> <br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> <br /> All alone,<br /> <br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> <br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> <br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> <br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> <br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> <br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> <br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> <br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> <br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> <br /> Rolls<br /> <br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> <br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> <br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> <br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells:<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> <br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> https://poets.org/poem/bells<br /> <br /> [[Category:Ringing Poems]]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2568 2026-07-28T10:26:19Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> <br /> Silver bells!<br /> <br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> <br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> <br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> <br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> <br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> <br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> <br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> <br /> Golden bells!<br /> <br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> <br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> <br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> <br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> <br /> And all in tune,<br /> <br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> <br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> <br /> On the moon!<br /> <br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> <br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> <br /> How it swells!<br /> <br /> How it dwells<br /> <br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> <br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> <br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> <br /> Brazen bells!<br /> <br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> <br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> <br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> <br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> <br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> <br /> Out of tune,<br /> <br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> <br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> <br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> <br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> <br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> <br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> <br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> <br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> <br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> <br /> Of Despair!<br /> <br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> <br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> <br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> <br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> <br /> By the twanging,<br /> <br /> And the clanging,<br /> <br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> <br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> <br /> In the jangling,<br /> <br /> And the wrangling.<br /> <br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> <br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> <br /> Iron bells!<br /> <br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> <br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> <br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> <br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> <br /> For every sound that floats<br /> <br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> <br /> Is a groan.<br /> <br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> <br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> <br /> All alone,<br /> <br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> <br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> <br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> <br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> <br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> <br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> <br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> <br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> <br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> <br /> Rolls<br /> <br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> <br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> <br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> <br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells:<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> <br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> <br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> <br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> <br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> <br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> <br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> https://poets.org/poem/bells</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2567 2026-07-28T10:20:14Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells<br /> <br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> https://poets.org/poem/bells</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2566 2026-07-28T10:18:55Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> https://poets.org/poem/bells</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2565 2026-07-28T09:34:04Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* References */</p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> https://poets.org/poem/bells</div>

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<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;</div>

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<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> '''The Bells''' is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2562 2026-07-28T09:22:23Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2561 2026-07-28T09:21:19Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;inputbox&gt;<br /> type=create<br /> width=100<br /> break=no<br /> buttonlabel=Create new article<br /> placeholder=Article title<br /> &lt;/inputbox&gt;<br /> <br /> The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2560 2026-07-28T09:20:43Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;inputbox&gt;<br /> type=create<br /> width=100<br /> break=no<br /> buttonlabel=Create new article<br /> placeholder=Article title<br /> &lt;/inputbox&gt;<br /> <br /> The Bells<br /> <br /> The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=The_bells&diff=2559 2026-07-28T09:19:19Z

<p>JohnHarrison: Created page with &quot;The Bells The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How the...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>The Bells<br /> <br /> The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Category:Ringing_Poems&diff=2558 2026-07-28T09:06:43Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]<br /> This is an index for ringing poems, for which there are many around... if you know of any, please add a page for them here!</div>

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<p>JohnHarrison: Replaced content with &quot;Category: Ringing Fun&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Category:Ringing_Poems&diff=2556 2026-07-28T09:01:42Z

<p>JohnHarrison: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Category: Ringing Fun]]<br /> The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)<br /> <br /> I.<br /> <br /> Hear the sledges with the bells—<br /> Silver bells!<br /> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br /> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br /> In the icy air of night!<br /> While the stars that oversprinkle<br /> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br /> With a crystalline delight;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br /> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.<br /> <br /> II.<br /> <br /> Hear the mellow wedding bells,<br /> Golden bells!<br /> What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!<br /> Through the balmy air of night<br /> How they ring out their delight!<br /> From the molten-golden notes,<br /> And all in tune,<br /> What a liquid ditty floats<br /> To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats<br /> On the moon!<br /> Oh, from out the sounding cells,<br /> What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!<br /> How it swells!<br /> How it dwells<br /> On the Future! how it tells<br /> Of the rapture that impels<br /> To the swinging and the ringing<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!<br /> <br /> III.<br /> <br /> Hear the loud alarum bells—<br /> Brazen bells!<br /> What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!<br /> In the startled ear of night<br /> How they scream out their affright!<br /> Too much horrified to speak,<br /> They can only shriek, shriek,<br /> Out of tune,<br /> In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,<br /> In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,<br /> Leaping higher, higher, higher,<br /> With a desperate desire,<br /> And a resolute endeavor<br /> Now—now to sit or never,<br /> By the side of the pale-faced moon.<br /> Oh, the bells, bells, bells!<br /> What a tale their terror tells<br /> Of Despair!<br /> How they clang, and clash, and roar!<br /> What a horror they outpour<br /> On the bosom of the palpitating air!<br /> Yet the ear it fully knows,<br /> By the twanging,<br /> And the clanging,<br /> How the danger ebbs and flows;<br /> Yet the ear distinctly tells,<br /> In the jangling,<br /> And the wrangling.<br /> How the danger sinks and swells,<br /> By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—<br /> Of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!<br /> <br /> IV.<br /> <br /> Hear the tolling of the bells—<br /> Iron bells!<br /> What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!<br /> In the silence of the night,<br /> How we shiver with affright<br /> At the melancholy menace of their tone!<br /> For every sound that floats<br /> From the rust within their throats<br /> Is a groan.<br /> And the people—ah, the people—<br /> They that dwell up in the steeple,<br /> All alone,<br /> And who tolling, tolling, tolling,<br /> In that muffled monotone,<br /> Feel a glory in so rolling<br /> On the human heart a stone—<br /> They are neither man nor woman—<br /> They are neither brute nor human—<br /> They are Ghouls:<br /> And their king it is who tolls;<br /> And he rolls, rolls, rolls,<br /> Rolls<br /> A pæan from the bells!<br /> And his merry bosom swells<br /> With the pæan of the bells!<br /> And he dances, and he yells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the pæan of the bells—<br /> Of the bells:<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> In a sort of Runic rhyme,<br /> To the throbbing of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the sobbing of the bells;<br /> Keeping time, time, time,<br /> As he knells, knells, knells,<br /> In a happy Runic rhyme,<br /> To the rolling of the bells—<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the tolling of the bells,<br /> Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—<br /> Bells, bells, bells—<br /> To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1513 2011-09-28T12:26:09Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough Adrian Scarborough], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm] <br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor Gwen Taylor], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Bruce_Lockhart Dugald Bruce-Lockhart], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_de_Courcey Jamie de Courcey], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndsey_Marshal Lyndsey Marshal], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/89_SeamusWhitty.php Seamus Whitty], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1512 2011-09-28T12:25:27Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough Adrian Scarborough], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm] <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor Gwen Taylor], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Bruce_Lockhart Dugald Bruce-Lockhart], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_de_Courcey Jamie de Courcey], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndsey_Marshal Lyndsey Marshal], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]<br /> [http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/89_SeamusWhitty.php Seamus Whitty], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1511 2011-09-28T12:21:31Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough Adrian Scarborough], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor Gwen Taylor], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Bruce_Lockhart Dugald Bruce-Lockhart], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_de_Courcey Jamie de Courcey], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndsey_Marshal Lyndsey Marshal], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> <br /> [http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/89_SeamusWhitty.php Seamus Whitty], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1510 2011-09-28T12:20:06Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough Adrian Scarborough], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor Gwen Taylor], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Bruce_Lockhart Dugald Bruce-Lockhart], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_de_Courcey Jamie de Courcey], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndsey_Marshal Lyndsey Marshal], actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead<br /> [http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/89_SeamusWhitty.php Seamus Whitty], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1509 2011-09-28T12:17:33Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough] Adrian Scarborough, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor] Gwen Taylor, actress (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Bruce_Lockhart] Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_de_Courcey] Jamie de Courcey, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndsey_Marshal] Lyndsey Marshal, actress (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> [http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/89_SeamusWhitty.php] Seamus Whitty, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1508 2011-09-28T12:06:41Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> [Adrian Scarborough, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)]<br /> [Gwen Taylor, actress (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)]<br /> [Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)]<br /> [Jamie de Courcey, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)]<br /> [Lyndsey Marshal, actress (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)]<br /> [Seamus Whitty, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)]</div>

JohnHarrison https://wiki.changeringing.co.uk/index.php?title=Famous_bellringers&diff=1507 2011-09-28T11:29:38Z

<p>JohnHarrison: /* People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only */</p> <hr /> <div>The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Barker Kate Barker], economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2790348/Bank-of-England-The-nine-people-who-set-UK-interest-rates.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman John Betjeman], poet (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]<br /> <br /> Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-kippertie-maker-who-triumphed-over-maxwell-1259302.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison John Harrison], clockmaker, &quot;Longitude&quot;. [http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Hatton Derek Hatton], politician (email from Geoff Sparling)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone Philip Hollobone], MP [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Hollobone_Philip.aspx]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Major Norma Major], wife of former Prime Minister [http://stpeterschertsey.f2s.com/ChertseyDistrict/news/jan08.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muir Frank Muir], entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Noble Monty Noble], Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Philbin Maggie Philbin], television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh], celebrity gardener [http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/blog/2011/07/alan-titchmarsh-celebrity-gardener-profile/]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright &amp; comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]<br /> <br /> == People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis Evan Davis], economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8126000/8126215.stm]<br /> Adrian Scarborough, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> Gwen Taylor, actress (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> Jamie de Courcey, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> Lyndsey Marshal, actress (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)<br /> Seamus Whitty, actor (Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead)</div>

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