Each sobbing breath is but a cry, My heart-strokes knells of agony, And my whole brain has but one thought That nevermore through life shall I (Save in the ache of memory) Touch hands with thee, who now art naught!

I must make the effort, though in that leaden hour of weariness and cold it seemed as if my death-knell were ringing.

Being young, I studied physic, and began To practise first upon the Italian; There I enriched the priests with burials, And always kept the sexton's arms in ure With digging graves and ringing dead men's knells.

Oft near some crowded city would I walk, Listening the far-off noises, rattling cars, Loud shouts of joy, sad shrieks of sorrow, knells Full slowly tolling, instruments of trade, Striking my ears with one deep-swelling hum.

But husband thou thy pleasures, and give scope To all her subtle play: by nature led A thousand shifts she tries; to unravel these The industrious beagle twists his waving tail, Through all her labyrinths pursues, and rings Her doleful knell.

I look up from my work and see The morning light shine in on me, And listen to a warning knell

And though the dawn come in with chime or knell, When night recalls its last bright sentinel, I shall, at least, have memories left to me, When morning breaks.

[* Many, company.] "Let birds be silent on the naked spray, 330 And shady woods resound with dreadfull yells; Let streaming floods their hastie courses stay, And parching drouth drie up the cristall wells; Let th'earth be barren, and bring foorth no flowres, And th'ayre be fild with noyse of dolefull knells, 335 And wandring spirits walke untimely howres.

It was indeed a delight: loads of incense were burned, there were plenty of Latin chants, large quantities of holy water were expended, and Padre Irene, out of regard for his old friend, sang the Dies Irae in a falsetto voice from the choir, while the neighbors suffered real headaches from so much knell-ringing.

; languishment^; condolence &c 915. mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory^; knell &c 363; deep death song, dirge, coronach^, nenia^, requiem, elegy, epicedium^; threne^; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade^; ullalulla^. mourner; grumbler &c (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus.

And when the last sound of the seven strokes, each of which had fallen like a knell upon her heart, had died away, she turned her eyes again on the motionless face of Pascal, and once more she abandoned herself to her grief.

Every body knows the line in Gray's Elegy, not unworthily echoed from Dante's "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

Let all the customarie rights of funerall, His knell or what else, be solemnly observed.

But this she knows, in joys and woes, That saints will aid if men will call: 330 For the blue sky bends over all! PART THE SECOND "Each matin bell," the Baron saith, "Knells us back to a world of death.

Together we slowly counted the knells until she stopped us, saying, "It's for somebody else; Castle is not so old.

But I am deaf to women, and the voice of love sounds like the funeral knell of her who will never breathe it to me more.

That is what is the matter with the Germans; they cannot "ring fancy's knell"; their knells have no gaiety.

The ecstasy endured a full five minutes, until a last tap of the bell tolled the knell of the tardy.

I strove to read: but it was impossible to sit at home almost within earshot of the studio, and with all the memories of defeat still ringing their knells in my heart.

His quiet mind forsook him: the phantasma Started him in his Louvre, chased him forth Into the open air: like funeral knells Sounded that coronation festival; And still with boding sense he heard the tread Of those feet that even then were seeking him Throughout the streets of Paris.

The word Fell upon my ears Like the knell of a funeral bell.

I strove to read: but it was impossible to sit at home almost within earshot of the studio, and with all the memories of defeat still ringing their knells in my heart.

So men are presented for not paying the parish fees due for the burial of members of their family, or for the ringing of knells; for suffering a church tenement or a part of the church fence, which they are bound to repair, to fall into decay,[150] and so forth.

In St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, Acc'ts (ed. W.H. Overall & A.J. Waterlow), 178-9, the receipts from knells and peals alone were 44s.

Then follow The Parrishe's dutyes for the Bells (knells, peals, with small or large bells).