 The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes...  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Page 169by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...marriage-bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance '. let joy be uneon, fined, [Pleasure meet No sleep till morn, when Youth and To chase the' glowing Hours with flying... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry asa marriage-bell ! but hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; •On with the dance ! let joy be... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And a!l went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell'. Did ye not hear it ": — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...hush .' hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! XXII. " Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with tile dance! let joy be uuconfined; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing... | |
 | John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 pages
...voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it? No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfin'd... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell $ But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, . Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell : But bush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...voluptnous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but Die wind, Or the car raiding o'er the stony street; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfmed... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; Bat ne he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but t he wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No «leep till morn when Yooth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But, hark... | |
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