Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79.
Moscow Bells
By Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923)T
What memories o’er me steal!
Again I hear the Moscow bells
Across the moorland peal!
The bells that rock the Kremlin tower
Like a strong wind, to and fro,—
Silver sweet in its topmost bower,
And the thunder’s boom below.
When all the world is fair,
God’s angels out of heaven are drawn
To list the music there.
And while the rose-clouds with the breeze
Drift onward,—like a dream,
High in the ether’s pearly seas
Their radiant faces gleam.
A new delight would bring,
Say: I will hear the Moscow bells
Across the moorland ring!
The bells that rock the Kremlin tower
Like a strong wind, to and fro,—
Silver sweet in its topmost bower,
And the thunder’s boom below!