 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 254 pàgines
...give words to her grief, and they could not. — Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ? THE VOICELESS. We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — 422 THE AUTOCRAT Of Alas for those who never sing, But die with all their music in them ' Nay,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 256 pàgines
...give words to her grief, and they could not. — Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ? THE VOICELESS. We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the nuigio string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — m Alas for those who never sing, But die with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 438 pàgines
...words to her grief, and they could not. — Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ' THE VOICELESS. Viz count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pàgines
...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...for those that never sing, But die with all their 1nusic in them! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story, —... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 450 pàgines
...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, And noisy Fame is prond to win them : — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them ' Nay,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 362 pàgines
...Till morning's latest sunlight fades Un the blue tablet of the deep ! П.- 1857-1861. THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number? A few can touch the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 pàgines
...light^ And live untroubled by woes and fears Through a second youth of a hundred years. THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slum' ber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number.? A few... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 pàgines
...give words to her grief, and they could not — Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ? THE VOICELESS. We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 pàgines
...give words to her grief, and they could not. — Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ? THE VOICELESS. We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1891 - 1138 pàgines
...most familiar and most beautiful lyrics? "We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet waiting singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast...flowers who will stoop to number? A few can touch the inagic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them ; Ala?, for those that never sing, And die with... | |
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Alas for those who never sing, But die with all their music in them! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story, — Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory! 
