Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotes , Source: To Jane--The Keen Stars were Twinkling
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Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: Bloody Brother (act III, sc. 2, song)
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The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation,
And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;
In fact, he had no singing education,
An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 87)
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At every close she made, th' attending throng
Replied, and bore the burden of the song:
So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note,
It seemed the music melted in the throat.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Flower and the Leaf (l. 197)
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Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin'
Robins, la'ks an' all dem things
Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces
When Malindy sings.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Quotes , Source: When Malindy Sings
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Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Bob Dylan
Quotes , Source: Mr. Tamborine Man, a song
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Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Essays--The Poet
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I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face.
George Farquhar
Quotes , Source: The Inconstant (act II, 1)
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When I but hear her sing, I fare
Like one that raises, holds his ear
To some bright star in the supremest Round;
Through which, besides the light that's seen
There may be heard, from Heaven within,
The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.
Owen Felltham (Feltham)
Quotes , Source: Lusoria (XXXIV)
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Then they began to sing
That extremely lovely thing,
"Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
William S. Gilbert
Quotes , Source: Bab Ballads--Story of Prince Agib
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So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the
thirst of his spirit.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes , Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Birthmark
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God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: The Singers
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul
And lap it in Elysium.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Comus (l. 256)
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Or did the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Il Penseroso (l. 105)
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O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma,
which was sung in my halls of joy, when Fingal, king of shields,
was there, and glowed at the deeds of his fathers.
Ossian
Quotes , Source: Fingal (bk. III, st. 1)
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain.
The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;
The moving mountains hear the powerful call.
And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Summer (l. 81)
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Every night he comes
With musics of all sorts, and songs composed
To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves, for he persists
As if his life lay on't.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Widow Capilet at III, vii)
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Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes
And interchanged love tokens with my child;
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Egeus at I, i)
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