 THE VOICELESS WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them : — Alas...  Dwight's Journal of Music - Page 2051859Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 328 pages
...! — Behold thy new-decked shrine, And hear once more the voice that breathed " Forever thine ! " THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest...slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature, Modern - 1862 - 368 pages
...thy new-decked shrine, And hear once more the voice that breathed " Forever thine ! " THE VOICELESS. count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing...slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...Gabriel Romanowitch Derzhavin. 438 420 420 421 422 423 423 425 426 428 430 OUR POETICAL FAVORITES. The Voiceless. WE count the broken lyres that rest...slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to... | |
 | American poetry - 1871 - 210 pages
...? " Be off, lass — thae looks very weel ; He wants noan o' th' bonnet, thae foo ! " EDWTH WAUGH. THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest...singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; Alas for those that never sing,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1873 - 1004 pages
...of some remarkably clever dialogue on c and poetry in " The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table " :— We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber ; But o'er their silent sisters' breast The wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy... | |
 | 1873 - 746 pages
...some remarkably clever dialogue on music and poetry in " The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table : " — " We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber; But o'er their silent sisteis' breast The wild flowers who will stoop to number? A few can touch the mugir string, And noisy... | |
 | Voices - Christian poetry, English - 1874 - 256 pages
...night : When they quite enclose me round, May my lamp be burning found ! Mrs Southey. THE VOICELESS. count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber ; But o'er their silent sisters' breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...the morning's light, And live untroubled by woes and fears Through a second youth of a hundred years. THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest...slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...new-decked shrine, And hear once more the voice that breathed " Forever thine ! " THE VOICELESS. (IE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing...slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 444 pages
...as for Letitia Landon, of whom Elizabeth Browning said it ; but she could give words to her grief, and they could not. — Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ? THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyrea that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, — But o'er their silent sister's breast... | |
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