The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe
#decemberdreams #bells @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#TeamEvergreen #wintergames
@Clwojick
Eggs Love this 🔔🧡🎄 5mo
dabbe My fave poem of his! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
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The Bells | 
The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe
#decemberdreams #bells @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#TeamEvergreen #wintergames
@Clwojick
My #weirdwords is one of my favorite onomatopoeia: tintinnabulation. Used to good effect in Poe's slightly maddening poem The Bells. 🔔🔔
@cbee
I would highly recommend the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage. The Saturday guide is informative and entertaining.
He moved here in a vain attempt to save his wife from tuberculosis. One of the few original pieces is the bed she died in.
I didn‘t know he was more famous as a literary critic than as a writer when he passed away. I‘d be interested learning more about him.
#literaryplaces #nyc
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
(cont. below)
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 meaning of their tone!
RIP Oct. 7, 1849
