Chimes Quotes

When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay For the joy that the day has brought, Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part?

— 1910 'A Perfect Day'.

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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

paul muldoon

— Interviewed in Thumbscrew, Spring 1996. [1]

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She walks in beauty like the night, of cloudless chimes and starry skies. And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty.

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We have heard the chimes at midnight.

— Falstaff, scene ii

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