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It is best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
— Song
It is best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
The best days of the church have always been its singing days.
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Sing a song of sixpence.
Song opens a window to the secret places of the soul.
I deeply felt that song should makeAll those who feel and think.
Listen to that song, and learn it!If by such songs you would earn it!
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,Come, but one verse.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
I cannot sing the old songs I do not know the words.
All this for a song.
I can not sing the old songs now! They go.
Unlike my subject now * * * shall be my song,It shall be witty and it sha'n't be long!
A song of hate is a song of Hell; England.
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci."
We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground,Give us a song to cheer.
In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet, The song that is fit for men!
The song on its mighty pinionsTook every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven.
Such songs have power to quiet That follows after prayer.
And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, That feels the Master Melody—and snaps.
She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune … and fears no manner of ill because she means none.
I think, whatever mortals crave, Who will not read a sermon.
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Hear the wedding song!
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
The lively Shadow-World of Song.
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
Knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work.
Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent,We lack, and not for those which we possess.
They sang of love and not of fame; But all sang "Annie Laurie."
Short swallow-flights of song, that dipTheir wings in tears, and skim away.
Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.
Grasshopper to grasshopper, ant to ant is dear,Hawks love hawks, but I the muse and song.
Swift, swift, and bring with you Song's Indian summer!
Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
Bring the good old bugle, boys! we'll sing another song— While we were marching through Georgia.
