object:1.poe - The Bells - A collaboration
author class:Edgar Allan Poe
subject class:Poetry
book class:Poe - Poems
class:chapter
The bells! ah, the bells!
The little silver bells!
How fairy-like a melody there floats
From their throats.
From their merry little throats
From the silver, tinkling throats
Of the bells, bells, bells
Of the bells!
The bells! ah, the bells!
The heavy iron bells!
How horrible a monody there floats
From their throats
From their deep-toned throats
From their melancholy throats!
How I shudder at the notes
Of the bells, bells, bells
Of the bells!
It is believed that Poe wrote this poem having been given the opening lines of each verse by Mrs. M. L. Shew.
It can be found in The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, London: Chandos Classics [1888], by John H. Ingram,
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