 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 60by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 418 pages
...hundred pounds for the painted head of a beggar, who would threaten the living mendicant with the stocks. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...master's spell : And feeling hearts, touch them but lightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding ; that... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 510 pages
...wishes, all his thoughts inclined ; Still siihjecl — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his inirlh, and sorrow of his sorrow The soul of music slumbers...waked and kindled by the master's spell , And feeling hearls — (ouch them but rightly — pour •V thousand melodies unheard before! (16) Nor many moons... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...seem'st to be. ANON. Our sensibilities are so acute, The fear of being silent makes us mute. COWPER. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked...master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but lightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! ROGERS. Oh ! life is a waste of wearisome hours,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...A poet of a kindred genius says, — The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked to rapture by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch...rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before. There is probably no instrument which imitates the human voice, or appeals to human sympathies so well... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 pages
...in the presence of those they love ? It calls forth all their beauty. Page 13, col. 1, lines 46, 47. And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before I Xenophon has left us a delightful instance of conjugal affection. The King of Armenia not fulfilling... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow. — The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked to rapture by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch...rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before. ROGERS. SONG OF THE AGED MINSTREL. And said I that my limbs were old, And said I that my blood was... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...most beautiful in the presence of those they love ? It calls forth all their beauty. P. 94, 1. 19. And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — -pour A thousand melodies unheard before ! Xenophon has left us a delightful instance of conjugal affection. The King of Armenia not fulfilling... | |
 | Malachi Mouldy (pseud.) - 1844 - 328 pages
...Pudens's heart, which awoke into thrilling energy emotions which had long lain dormant ; as poets fain — The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's shell. ROGERS. He stood gazing upon this trophy for some moments, and his eyes filled with tears as... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 330 pages
...the heart that is soonest a wak'd to ibeflowr't, Is always the first to be touched by the thorn». The soul of music — slumbers in the shell, Till...master's spell, And feeling hearts, (touch them but lightly,) pour A thousand melodies, unheard before. Wh«n all thin« have ihuir trial, you shall find,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 612 pages
...his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow — The sonl of music slumbers in the shell Till wnked to rapture THE ECHO. thine ! when hills and seas divide, hen storms combine; st winds sigh, or deserts part us... | |
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