"Sweet bells" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... left, she looks to right, and in the midst she sees A little well of water clear and frozen 'neath the trees; Then down beside its margent in the crusty snow she kneels, And hears a magic belfry a-ringing with sweet bells. ...
— Songs of Childhood • Walter de la Mare
... See'st thou yon river, whose translucent wave, Forth issuing from darkness, windeth through The argent streets o' the City, imaging The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes; Her gardens frequent with the stately Palm, Her Pagods hung with music of sweet bells: Her obelisks of ranged Chrysolite, Minarets and towers? Lo! how he passeth by, And gulphs himself in sands, as not enduring To carry through the world those waves, which bore The reflex of my City in their depths. Oh City! ...
— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... evermore, That seemeth sleeping on the breeze. Like sound of sweet bells from the shore Lingering along ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... were the glories of the land: for in them abode mysterious powers and ancient secrets that towered into tragic strength. "Abbeys there were, and abbey windows"— "like Moorish temples of the Hindoos"—that exercised even princely power both in Lorraine and in the German Diets. These had their sweet bells that pierced the forests for many a league at matins or vespers, and each its own dreamy legend. Few enough, and scattered enough, were these abbeys, so as in no degree to disturb the deep solitude of the region; yet many enough to spread a network or awning of Christian sanctity over what ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey
... of love its walls shall climb, Sweet bells of peace shall ring its chime, Its days ...
— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard |
