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The Bells, and Other Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

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  1. The Bells

    5:11

  2. Eulalie - A Song

    1:22

  3. Annabel Lee

    2:12

  4. Sonnet - Silence

    1:19

  5. The Raven

    10:20

  6. To one in Paradise

    1:27

  7. Lenore

    2:42

  8. Dreams

    2:34

  9. To Helen

    3:22

  10. The Haunted Palace

    3:25

  11. A Dream within a Dream

    1:19

  12. The City in the Sea

    2:52

  13. To F.

    1:05

  14. The Sleeper

    3:22

  15. Ulalume

    7:39

  16. Romance

    1:20

  17. Sonnet - to Science

    1:09

  18. Eldorado

    0:57

  19. To M.

    1:00

  20. The Conqueror Worm

    2:42

  21. Sonnet - To Zante

    1:10

  22. To M. L. S.

    1:05

  23. To the River

    0:54

  24. A Dream

    0:58

  25. Al Aaraaf

    26:52

  26. To F--s S. O--d

    0:53

  27. Bridal Ballad

    1:43

  28. To my Mother

    0:55

  29. To Helen

    0:59

  30. The Valley of Unrest

    1:32

  31. The Lake

    1:19

  32. The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour

    1:22

  33. Catholic Hymn

    0:51

  34. To --

    1:48

  35. Evening Star

    0:59

  36. Stanzas

    3:08

  37. Spirits of the Dead

    1:32

  38. Israfel

    2:14

  39. Song

    1:09

  40. To --

    0:51

  41. Fairy-land

    2:01

  42. The Coliseum

    2:53

  43. Dreamland

    2:50

  44. For Annie

    3:53

  45. Alone

    1:11

  46. Tamerlane

    10:32

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Silver sleigh bells, golden wedding bells, alarms and solemn tolling give the opening poem its changing pulse. Edgar Allan Poe builds each section from repeated sounds, turning the noise of bells into merriment, happiness, fear and melancholy. The collection also includes Eulalie, Annabel Lee, The Raven and other poems that move between affection, loss, dreams and unease. In The Raven, a weary speaker reads late at night, remembers Lenore and hears a tapping at his door before a bird enters his chamber.

The verse ranges from short songs and sonnets to the imagined heavens of Al Aaraaf, where stars, spirits, luminous columns and a diamond window fill the scene. This edition pairs the poems with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.

From the opening pages

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 if 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 a 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 endeavour. 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 clamour and the clangour 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 paean from the bells!

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.

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About 70 minutes
Pages
142
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Sonia, Tomas Peter, Jim Locke and others