 | 1859 - 440 pages
...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 ; — Alns for those thnt never sing, But die with nil then- music in them ! Nav, grieve not for the... | |
 | 1854 - 562 pages
...some may abler be, But know the talent God has given, Will be required of thee. JM HOLLYOCK. STANZA. A FEW can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them, Alas ! for those who never sing^, But die with all their music m them. 66 FIRST LOVE ; OR, THE STORY OF LE D . " But... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...breathed " Forever thine!" THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast...— Alas for those that never sing, But die with all then- music in them ! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story,... | |
 | 1862 - 586 pages
...singing poets, I mean, for roar y and many a true poet never sends out his voice to charm the world. " A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them, Alas! for those wflb never sing, But die with all their music in them." I once had a canary bird that was like these.... | |
 | 1863 - 668 pages
...as for an intellectual beggar or bankrupt to be littering the streets with his starveling brood. " Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them." If the mere mechanical organ-grinders would only stop grating the air with their noisy pipes, and the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...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, 5 And noisy fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...OUR POETICAL FAVORITES. The Voiceless. WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast...And noisy fame is proud to win them ; Alas for those who never sing, But die with all their music in them ! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song... | |
 | California. Department of Public Instruction - 1873 - 390 pages
...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...never sing, But die with all their music in them." CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Twenty-five credits. Five questions, five credits... | |
 | 1873 - 1004 pages
...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...that never sing, But die with all their music in them ! y, grieve not for the dead alone, Whose song has told their heart's sad story ; Weep for the voiceless,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1873 - 410 pages
...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...that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story,— Weep for the voiceless,... | |
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The wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their... 
