All that I have revealed unto thee with the tongue of power, and have written for thee with the pen of might, hath been in accordance with thy capacity and understanding, not with My state and the melody of My voice.
The time cometh, when the nightingale of holiness will no longer unfold the inner mysteries and ye will all be bereft of the celestial melody and of the voice from on high.
I fear lest, bereft of the melody of the dove of heaven, ye will sink back to the shades of utter loss, and, never having gazed upon the beauty of the rose, return to water and clay.
The whole compass of our literature has few passages to equal its melody and beauty.
No,' she said, and her fingers unconsciously played on the blind cords the time of the melody in Chopin's 'Marche Funebre.
The depth and solemnity of Beethoven's melody and later polyphonic richness is a leading source of Schumann's inspiration, though Schumann's artistic schemes exclude any high degree of formal organization on a large scale.
Du Meresq wondered what had jarred those silvery tones, and stolen the melody from the voice he had once thought almost seraphic.
The home of my youth stands in silence and sadness: None that tasted its simple enjoyments are there, No longer its walls ring with glee and with gladness No strain of blithe melody breaks on the ear.
It abdicates its self-will with joy; silently do the laws of home control it; its reverence and love are the melody of its being; its life is an exchange of obedience for protection.
Melody is dead,' was the dejected reply, 'and we are taking it to the graveyard.
Wagner made the discovery, not a very wonderful one after all when we think, that an opera had much better bemelody from end to end.
Yes; he who loved Shelley so well as I could not fail to hear the melody of-- "Music to hear, why hearest thou music sadly?
Description is narrative, analysis of character is narrative, dialogue is narrative; the form is ceaselessly changing, but the melody of narration is never interrupted.
Who celebrates his friendliness In melody and song!
My tones are passing sweet; I thrill you with my melody So simple, yet complete!
As I did this a swift and dazzling radiance poured shower-like through the air, and again I heard mysterious chords of rhythmic melodyrising and falling like distant waves of the sea.
Then a sudden wave of music broke upon my ears,--a breaking foam of rhythmic melody that rose and fell in a measured cadence of solemn sound.
The song soared so high that all dropped out except the tenors, who bore the melody triumphantly past the danger-point and relinquished it to the fantastic chorus.
Oh, to fall in love like that, to the languorous magic melody of such a tune!
Perhaps the very harmonies with which the Spawer had clad the naked melody of a hymn tune had so baffled their decaying, primitive hearing that they had failed to recognise it in its new garb.
If a melodycomes my way, I can hum it into shape without causing unpleasant remarks.
He had done better, possibly, to play the melody out for them with one finger.
A few minutes later the little group dispersed, with the melody of the girl's voice trembling in their souls.
Sing again the sweet melody that I heard when I awoke from the fever that day long ago!
As the sweet melody flowed out through the room the little group became silent and thoughtful.
Soon through the great rooms and marble halls drifted the low, weird melody which the girl had sung, long before, in the dreary Elwin school.
It was the same simple melody she had sung the day he awoke from his fever.
The words and the simple melody which carried them were evidently an improvisation.
It hummed in her ears as the melody of an old song.
The aroused manager whistled merrily for a good four miles to t his office an old melody that he had not recalled for fifteen years.
At a given signal Pan blew on his pipes, and with his rustic melodygave great satisfaction to himself and his faithful follower Midas, who happened to be present.
Here they conversed of the affairs of heaven and earth; and as they quaffed the nectar that Hebe poured, Apollo made melody with his lyre and the Muses sang in responsive strain.
Standing in the doorway in his night attire, his chest open to the frigid morning air, his face upraised to the floor above, he hummed the melody in a throaty tenor.
The secular airs, too, of that time were often as fit for sacred as profane use; and if I had to find a worthymelody for a good new hymn, I should seek more hopefully among them than in the sacred music of our own century.
They should be offered as pure melody in free rhythm and sung in unison: their accompaniment must not be entrusted to a modern grammarian.
Good melody is never out of fashion; and as it is by all confession the seal of high musical genius, so it is that form of music which is universally intelligible and in the best sense popular; and we have a rich legacy of it.
He sings: "God's goin' to wake up the Dead" and makes a beautiful melody out of the simple repetition.
Musical notes can give only a skeleton of the real melody that accompanies the words; the peculiar qualification of the negro singers to render their melodies defies art to exactly symbolize it.
Such a song is neither sung to an old melody nor a new tune; it is not a spiritual; it is scarcely native nor yet borrowed.
The single expression repeated itself forms a favorite melodythat is often sung.
He played the melody over only once, slowly and as sympathetically as he could; then he rose and retired from the piano; and stood in the darkness, listening.
Moreover, he had little taste for music and never so much as whistled a melodyduring working hours.
Instead he was humming a cheerful melody as he piled up two-piece velvet suits.
A cold chill fell on his heart, for, from the peristyle, he heard a girl's voice singing a graceful melodyto the chords of a cithara.
