 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...  Half-hours with the Best American Authors - Page 4341886Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...at its portal, as 'twere watched By flaming cherubim ! THE VOICELESS. ВТ О. W. HOLMES. WE connt the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing...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 - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...but she could 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...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 - 1858 - 420 pages
...but she could 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...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... | |
 | Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...; but she could give words to her gritf, and they could not. Will you hear a few stanzas of mine ? THE VOICELESS. We count the broken lyres that rest...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... | |
 | Universalism - 1859 - 534 pages
...; but she could 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...slumber, — But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild flowers who will stoop to number Î A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud... | |
 | Great Britain - 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 - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 326 pages
...last ! — Behold thy new-decked shrine, And hear once more the voice that breathed " Forever thine!" THE VOICELESS. WE count the broken lyres that rest...— 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,... | |
 | Universalism - 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.... | |
 | Congregationalism - 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...the charter of the soil ! One more extract from his charming compositions, and one of the best : — 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... | |
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