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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822To a Skylark (1820)In context
- Music
- Poetry
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory⁠—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Music, When Soft Voices Die (1821)In context
- Love
- Music
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Time
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Music
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Arrow and the Song (1845)In context
- Friendship
- Music
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Bells (1849)In context
- Music
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
- Music
- Nature
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse⁠—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness⁠—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Among School Children (1927)In context
- Dancing
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer1886–1918Trees (1913)In context
- Nature
- Poetry
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
Countee Cullen1903–1946Yet Do I Marvel (1925)In context
- Poetry
- Race
Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter TwelveIn context
- Music
- Talking
What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What’s genuine, shall Posterity inherit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Prelude at the Theatre, spoken by PoetIn context
- Fame
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book IIn context
- Poetry
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 55 (1609)In context
- Poetry