Monday, March 14, 2011

'The Bells' by Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/575/

A beautifully metered poem with incredibly adept choice of words - here's an excerpt -


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 tintinnabulation that so musically wells

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