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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!

[[Category: Ringing Fun]]

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		+	[https://engdic.org/poems-about-bells/ 10 Best Short Poems about Bells (EngDic)]
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−	~~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!~~	+	[[Category: Ringing Fun]]
		+	The Bells is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

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