| 1886 - 552 σελίδες
...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...But die with all their music in them! Nay, grieve uot for the dead alone, Whose soiig has told their hearts' sad story: Weep for the voiceless, who have... | |
| Emily Katherine Bates - 1887 - 318 σελίδες
...The Voiceless," which have re-echoed through countless hearts, and won their immortality thereby. ' ' A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is...never sing, But die with all their music in them. " Oh hearts that break and give no sign, Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till death pours out... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 σελίδες
...measured by the stride of man, and not of woman. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TAELE. SEPTEMBER 26. Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their heart's sad story, — Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 362 σελίδες
...sweet wailing singers 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...that never sing, But die with all their music in them 1 Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory ! Not where Leucadian... | |
| Thomas William Herringshaw - 1890 - 1032 σελίδες
...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...never sing. But die with all their music In them!' Old Time, In whose bank we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always warns guineas for groats; He keeps... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 σελίδες
...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...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, —... | |
| James Jeffrey Roche - 1891 - 840 σελίδες
...great and sweet." You all know the tender lines of that gentle heart that is with us to-night : ' ' A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is...that never sing, But die with all their music in them ! " But there is something particular to be said about our guests — some cunning word to establish... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 σελίδες
...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 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 - 362 σελίδες
...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 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... | |
| Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 σελίδες
...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...grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their heart's sad story — Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory!... | |
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