 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...  Songs in Many Keys - Page 248by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...who will stoop to number ? 836 T .'•: rev/ VJPK JO.. : LIBRARY . 70P, LENOX :Lij..n ! c JI.DATIONF, A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is...; Alas for those that 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:... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...singers slumber, — But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild flowers who will stoop to number V A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is...— Alas for those that 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,—... | |
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