 | William Winter - 1893 - 388 σελίδες
...said this, in words of tender grace : — " A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is glad to win them : Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!" As with the arts of poetry and music, so also is it with the art of acting, — the art not simply... | |
 | 1893 - 680 σελίδες
...caterer fir a lending library of Children of Mary. * ,* » I am surprised to find that the lines — Alas for those that never sing. But die with all their music in them ! are by Oliver Wendell Holmes. I thought they came from a truer poet than the Autocrat of the Breakfast... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 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 that never sing, And die with all their music in them 1" But as he says also that the capacities of listeners at lectures... | |
 | 1894 - 444 σελίδες
...wailing singers slumber, But o'er the silent sister's breast The wild flowers who will stop 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. Many of the poems contributed by Holmea to college... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1894 - 260 σελίδες
...measured by the stride of man, and not of Woman. THE PEOFESSOE AT THE BEEAKFAST-TABLE. SEPTEMBEE 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 - 1895 - 390 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...that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story, — Weep for the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 398 σελίδες
...broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber But o'er their silent sister's breast A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is...that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story, — Weep for the... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1902 - 184 σελίδες
...slumber, But o'er 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 ! for those who never sing, But die with all their music in them." The subject of this paper is the HON. RICHARD... | |
 | 1897 - 334 σελίδες
...Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. The Lotos-eaters. OW Holmes, 1809-1894 A FEW can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is...that never sing, But die with all their music in them ! The Voiceless. i WE Gladstone, 1809 of training both for arousing, and for governing the mind of... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 204 σελίδες
...singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild flowers, who will stoop to numbei ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is...that never sing, But die with all their music in them ! Tht VoiceUts. IL Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.... | |
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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... 
