 In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings are a lute"; None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends tell), Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute.  Edgar Allan Poe: How to Know Him - Síða 179eftir Charles Alphonso Smith - 1921 - 350 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1914 - 344 síður
...Israfel whose heart-strings are a lute and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures. — Koran. IN Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings...Blushes with love, While, to listen, the red levin 2 (With the rapid Pleiads,3 even, Which were seven), Pauses in Heaven. And they say (the starry choir... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 síður
...whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures." — Koran. In Heaven a spirit doth dwell, "Whose heart-strings...noon, The enamoured moon Blushes with love, While, to listen1, the red leven (With the rapid Pleiads, even, Which were seven) Pauses in Heaven. And they... | |
 | 1923 - 748 síður
...last — not the most distant from mortal love — strangely-angelled Foe's shrill-tongued Isafrel: In Heaven a spirit doth dwell Whose heart-strings...their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. . . . Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely — flowers,... | |
 | Marie Corelli - 1971 - 378 síður
...daughters eagerly joined. As I went to the piano I thought of Edgar Allan Poe's exquisite poem : " In Heaven a spirit doth dwell, Whose heart-strings are a lute ; None sing so wildly well A3 the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars, so legends tell, Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of... | |
 | Gary Richard Thompson, Virgil Llewellyn Lokke - 1981 - 412 síður
...poet-laureate of paradise, predestined to fill that role by the remarkable character of his unique anatomy: In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings...their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. Israfel emerges as a nineteenth-century avatar of that familiar twentieth-century phenomenon, the popular... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 síður
...ambition end there. Israfel, a sort of Orpheus figure among the angels, even has power over creation: And the giddy stars (so legends tell) Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. (1.175) But in the prose sketch 'The Power of Words' Poe goes still further. There one angel shows... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 síður
...the light Of the eyes of my Annie. (1. 99-102) AmPP; AnAmPo; BLPL; LiTA; NOBA; OBEY; OxBA Israfel 26 of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath...OBNC; PoE; PoEL-4; SCV II. School-Time (Conclusion) 99 (1. 1-7) 27 Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely —... | |
 | Jutta Ernst - 1996 - 218 síður
...sich um den im Titel genannten Engel, der die Gestirne mit seiner Gesangskunst in Erstaunen setzt: None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends teil) Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. (Works I: 175, V. 3-7) Poe scheint... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 síður
...angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures." In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings...their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. Poe boldly elaborates a passage from the end of Moore's Lalla Rookh describing "Israfil, the Angel,"... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - 872 síður
...made it in characteristic fashion, his own. The true lyric fervor resounds with the opening stanzas: "In Heaven a spirit doth dwell Whose heart-strings...angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends tell) 29 Section IV, paragraph 76. "Israfil" is the spelling used here, as in Moore's "Fire Worshippers,"... | |
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