In The Waste Land the line
is an allusion to Dante Alighieri's poem Inferno, Canto IV, verses 25-27.
The lines from Dante quoted by Eliot in his note for this line can be translated as:
Here, as mine ear could note, no plaint was heard
Except of sighs, that made th' eternal air
Tremble
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