<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Bells - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the world we've found    Most meet to express the harmonious sound,     That calls to those in friendship bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows,  Now see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows,  Now see that noble and most sovereign reason   Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh,    That unmatched form and feature of blown youth     Blasted with ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear  That thou are crowned, not that I am dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the land;   Ring in the Christ that is to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars of old,   Ring in the thousand years of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curfew must not ring to-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curfew must not ring to-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4137]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,   To warn us from the place of jeopardy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[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!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4124]]></link><description><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds so wild would,     In the days of childhood,      Fling round my cradle       Their magic spells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy   With sounds most musical, most melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six;  They sound so woundy great,   So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six;  They sound so woundy great,   So wound'rous sweet,    And they troul so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4103]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church-going bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church-going bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear  In cadence sweet; now dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear  In cadence sweet; now dying all away,   Now pealing loud again, and louder still,    Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on!     With easy force it opens all the cells      Where Memory slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4110]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in a peal, one and all,   For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young and old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These bells have been anointed, And baptized with holy water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4115]]></link><description><![CDATA[These bells have been anointed, And baptized with holy water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He heard the convent bell, Suddenly in the silence ringing  For the service of noonday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4116]]></link><description><![CDATA[He heard the convent bell, Suddenly in the silence ringing  For the service of noonday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers,  From their pulpits of stone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers,  From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,   Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,    Shriller than trumpets under the Law,     Now a sermon and now a prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party  To the church doth hie!   Bell, thou soundest solemnly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party  To the church doth hie!   Bell, thou soundest solemnly,    When, on Sabbath morning,     Fields deserted lie!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall make, in every Christian clime,   The bell of Atri famous for all time.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item></channel></rss>