the bells by edgar allan poe
tray blount
christmas bells
- "what a world of merriment their melody foretells".
- "how they twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, in the icy air of night"
- keeping time, time, time, in a sort or runic rhyme
wedding bells
- "hear the mellow wedding bells"
- "what a world of happiness their harmony foretells"
- "what a gush of euphony voluminously wells
fire/alarm bells
- hear the loud alarum bells
- what a tale of terror their turbulency tells
- how they scream out their affright
funeral bells
- what a world of solemn thought their monody compels
- at the melancholy menace of their tone
- from the rust within their throats