Edgar Allan Poe

The Bells, and Other Poems - Original Edition Edgar Allan Poe

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 oversprinkleAll the heavens, seem to twinkleWith a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort if Runic rhyme, To the tintinabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells, -From the jingling and the tinkling of the be