 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 92by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...eyes read his ; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined, Still subject— ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow. ROGERS. My wife, the kindest, dearest, and the truest That ever wore the name. Row.s. Fye! fye! unknit... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...eyes read his ; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined ; Still subject, — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth and sorrow...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! SAMUEL ROGERS. SEVEN TIMES SIX. GIVING IN MARRIAGE. To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch, and then... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. SHAKESPEARE. THE soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! SAMUEL ROGERS. PROM "MERCHANT OP VENICE." LORENZO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. SHAKESPEARE. THE soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...but rightly pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! SAMUEL ROGERS. FROM "MERCHANT OF VENICE." LORENZO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. Darxir.. 3261. SYMPATHY. Effects of hall slumber, lapt in universal law. — Tennyson. 2467. MILTON. MILTON'S strong pinion pout A thousand melodies unheard before. — Rcscn. 3262. SYMPATHY. God's THOU mayest smile, perchance,... | |
 | Orange blossoms - 1878 - 376 pages
...eyes read his ; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined j Still subject — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow...master's spell ; And feeling hearts— touch them tut rightly— pour & thousand melodie« unheard before."— RoaEM 'The marriage-service over, the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...eyes read his; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined, Still subject — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow. ROGERS. My wife, the kindest, dearest, and the truest That ever wore the name. Ro\VE. Fye! fye! unknit... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1879 - 478 pages
...' and warns both of them, in lines that deserve to be written in gold over every hearth, that — ' The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...the master's spell ; And feeling hearts, touch them hut rightly, pour A thousand melodies, unheard before.' As we proceed from love and marriage to the... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves — not dead, but gone before. Ib. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before. R. The very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...We might cull many pearls of thought from this poe-t, but we have only space for the following : — The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked...but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. The good... | |
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