THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS [Illustration: The Bells] THE BELLS and other Poems BY EDGAR ALLAN POE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDMUND DULAC [Illustration: Edgar Allan POE] HODDER AND STOUGHTON NEW YORK AND LONDON CONTENTS _The Bells_ _Eulalie--A Song_ _Annabel Lee_ _Sonnet--Silence_ _The Raven_ _To one in Paradise_ _Lenore_ _Dreams_ _To Helen (I saw thee once--once only--years ago)_ _The Haunted Palace_ _A Dream within a Dream_ _The City in the Sea_ _To F----_ _The Sleeper_ _Ulalume_ _Romance_ _Sonnet--to Science_ _Eldorado_ _To M.---- (O! I care not that my earthly lot)_ _The Conqueror Worm_ _Sonnet--To Zante_ _To M. L. S.----_ _To the River----_ _A Dream_ _Al Aaraaf_ _To F----s S. O----d_ _Bridal Ballad_ _To my Mother_ _To Helen (Helen, thy beauty is to me)_ _The Valley of Unrest_ _The Lake--To----_ _The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour_ _Catholic Hymn_ _To ---- ---- (Not long ago, the writer of these lines)_ _Evening Star_ _Stanzas_ _Spirits of the Dead_ _Israfel_ _Song (I saw thee on thy bridal day)_ _To---- (The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see)_ _Fairy-land_ _The Coliseum_ _Dreamland_ _For Annie_ _Alone_ _Tamerlane_ ILLUSTRATIONS _The Bells_ _The Bells_ _The Bells_ _Annabel Lee_ _Silence_ _The Raven_ _To One in Paradise_ _Lenore_ _To Helen_ _The Haunted Palace_ _The City in the Sea_ _The Sleeper_ _Ulalume_ _Eldorado_ _The Conqueror Worm_ _To the River_ _Al Aaraaf_ _Al Aaraaf_ _Bridal Ballad_ _To Helen_ _The Valley of Unrest_ _To ---- ---- (Mrs. Maris Louise Shew)_ _Israfel_ _Fairy-land_ _Dreamland_ _Alone_ _Tamerlane_ _Tamerlane_ _THE BELLS_ 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!