The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before... Poems - Page 121by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...his sorrow. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Nor many moons o'er hill and valley rise Ere to the gate with nymph-like step she flies, And their... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...his sorrow — The sonl of music slumbers in the shell Till wnked to rapture by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before. THE ECHO. thine ! when hills and seas divide, hen storms combine; st winds sigh, or deserts part us... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...his sorrow. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Nor many moons o'er hill and valley rise Ere to the gate with nymph-like step she flies, And their... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 pages
...of his sorrow The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Nor many moons o'er hill and valley rise Ere to the gate with nymph-like step she flies, And their... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...his sorrow. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Nor many moons o'er hill and valley rise Ere to the gate with nymph-like step she flies, And their... | |
| Life - 1853 - 308 pages
...epigram — The soul of music slumbered in its shell, Tfll waked and kindled by the master's spell: And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies, unheard before. And I believe that more misery is produced by an absence of sympathy between persons closely united,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1854 - 494 pages
...really are, most beautiful in the presence of those they love ? It calls forth all their beauty. (M) Xenophon has left us a delightful instance of conjugal...entered the country, and having taken him and all hia family prisoners, ordered them instantly before him. Armenian, said be, you are free ; for you... | |
| 1854 - 386 pages
...mood of mind. " The soul of music slumbers in its shell, Till waked and kindled by the Master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before." — ROGERS. A person's taste for music varies with the nation, the cultivation and the formation of... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...cares dividing. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Then, never less alone than when alone.* * Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam qnum otiosus, nee... | |
| Hester Taffetas (fict. name.) - 1857 - 402 pages
...his sorrow. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before." " There is no relation in life so important — none involving so much of happiness or misery — as... | |
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