 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 500 pàgines
...the blue tablet of the deep ! 140 THE VOICELESS. — THE PfiOMISE. II. -1857-1861. THE VOICELESS. W« count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing...singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast Thn wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A. few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1902 - 184 pàgines
...in which they have lived and died. One, who has himself won immortality as a poet, has said of such, "We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...their silent sister's breast, The wild flowers, who shall stoop to number? A few may touch the magic string And noisy fame is proud to win them; Alas !... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 470 pàgines
...burn for thee, Till all thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame ! THE VOICELESS WE COUNT the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 398 pàgines
...morning's latest sunlight fades On the blue tablet of the deep 1 II.— 1857-1861. ttbe Doiceless. WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...singers slumber But o'er their silent sister's breast A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them : — Alas for those that never... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 pàgines
...Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! THE VOICELESS.* We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...And noisy fame is proud to win them ; Alas for those who never sing, But die with all their music in them. % * By permission of Houghton, MiIflin & Co.... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 204 pàgines
...Elsie Venner (a novel), The Guardian Angel (a novel), and The Poet at the Breakfast Table. EXTRACTS. I. We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet...sister's breast The wild flowers, who will stoop to numbei ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them ; Alas for those that... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1899 - 488 pàgines
...blue tablet of the deep ! 140 THE VOICELESS. — THE PEOMISE. II. -1857-1861. THE VOICELESS. WE cottnt the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing...singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast Ths> wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A. few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud... | |
 | 1899 - 948 pàgines
...Holmes, " die with all their music in them." We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet waiting singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast...proud to win them ; Alas for those that never sing, And die with all their music in them ! For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 pàgines
...rest Where the ewect wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast ÏÏK wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them: — Alls for those that never sing, Hut die with all their music in them ! Niv. grieve not for the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pàgines
...fair Hyaeinthus lay. The hyacinth my garden gave Shall lie upon that Roman grave 1 THE VOICELESS \VE wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, Aud noisy Fame is proud to... | |
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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! 
