The institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action. Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University. Providing web space and server support for the project. Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located atįor Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, theįordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. In the icy air of night While the stars that oversprinkle. 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, The term comes from the letters used to write various ancient Germanic languages. What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.' The use of the term runic here implies having some mysterious or secret meaning. 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. Poe coined the onomatopoeic word tintinnabulation in the first stanza of this poem, which suggests a familiar tinkling of bells. 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 To the moaning and the groaning of the 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

The tintinnabulation of the bells poem