 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1984 - 1440 Seiten
...Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures. — KORAN None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And...Pleiads, even, Which were seven,) Pauses in Heaven. And they say (the starry choir And the other listening things) That Israfeli's fire Is owing to that... | |
 | Daniel Marder - 1984 - 392 Seiten
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 | Mark Van Doren - 1989 - 1538 Seiten
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 | Alan Shucard - 1988 - 232 Seiten
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 | Edwin T. Arnold - 1989 - 192 Seiten
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 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 536 Seiten
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 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
