The tintinnabulation of the bells poem5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the clamor and the clanging of the bells! In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,īy the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! ![]() To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! To the turtle - dove that listens, while she gloats What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsįrom the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. What a world of merriment their melody foretells! Would have had to have had a dramatic effect on Poe. YouĬould not hear the bells of University Church there now - the din of theīronx is too great, and since the Church was only built in 1845, its bells Still be visited a few blocks from Fordham, on the Grand Concourse. ![]() Poe lived in the Bronx for number of years, and his house can ![]()
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