Like music I unveil Last things, till, weary of earthen cups and rest, You seek Montsalvat and the burning Grail.
With silver lamps before him, and with measures Of low lute-music let him come.
They half betray, these curious magian hands: Faint music of thy breast has throbbed the faster, If I have touched it with my charming-wands.
A more agitated hurry of the syllables, a more involved sentence-structure, sometimes a fainter rime-stress, seem necessary to the music of bewilderment.
Grave players on ethereal harpsichords, My senses wrought a music exquisite As patterned roses, all my life's accords Were richer, ghostlier than peacocks white.
But when there came a note, a measure or a bar with which all were familiar, what a grand volume of music burst forth.
Something or other in the music box gave way all at once, the springs were unrolled with alarming force, and Henry Chubb, as he felt the fragments of the instrument hurled right and left among his vitals, tumbled over on the floor and expired.
Our people do their singing and their praying for themselves, and the choir merely takes care that the music is of a fitting kind.
It is possible that I may have upon the one hand a professor of music who gives, throughout the day, maddening lessons to muscular pupils and practices scales himself with energetic persistency during the night.
The more music there was in his stomach, the wilder and more completely chaotic became the discord in his soul.
Illustration] Then the music ceased, and the chairman proposed "three cheers for our eloquent visitor.
Illustration] But that evening, at the supper-table, Henry had eaten but one mouthful of bread when strains of wild, mysterious music were suddenly wafted from under the table.
Below us the rising and the ebbing tides hurl the tiny ripples upon the pebbly beach, and the perpetual wash of the waves makes that gentle and constant music which is among the most grateful of the sounds of nature.
He may flee from the city to escape the professor of music who hammers a piano ceaselessly, but in his new home he will certainly find a compensating nuisance of some kind.
The canal-boat bugler is not an artist, but he makes wonderful music sometimes when he blows a blast up yonder in the heart of Pennsylvania, and sets the wild echoes flying among the canyons of those mighty hills.
As from AEolian Harps in the breath of dawn, as from the Memnon's Statue struck by the rosy finger of Aurora, unearthly music was around him, and lapped him into untried balmy Rest.
Was it not the still higher Orpheus, or Orpheuses, who, in past centuries, by the divine Music of Wisdom, succeeded in civilizing Man?
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
Such music springs from kind hearts, in a kind environment of place and time.
Listen, and for organ-music thou wilt ever, as of old, hear the Morning Stars sing together.
A strange contradiction lay in me; and I as yet knew not the solution of it; knew not that spiritual music can spring only from discords set in harmony; that but for Evil there were no Good, as victory is only possible by battle.
Snorro tells us farther that Odin invented poetry; the music of human speech, as well as that miraculous runic marking of it.
There rise the sounds of music From harp strings sweet and clear, Wonderfully enchanting To the receiving ear.
He spoke hesitatingly, in a voice full of the slow music of Virginia.
For a long time Cherry Malotte sat quietly thinking, removed by her mental stress to such an infinite distance from the music and turmoil beneath that she was conscious of it only as a formless clamor.
The roadway where she stood was a crush of sundry vehicles from bicycles to dog-hauled water-carts, and on all sides men were laboring busily, the echo of hammers mingling with the cries of teamsters and the tinkle of music within the saloons.
Creeping through, she broke out into the last stage of the long race, amid the cheers of her weary passengers; and the dull jar of her engines made welcome music to the girl in the deck state-room.
Suddenly the music ceased and the couples crowded to the bar.
Mee's "History of the Oldest Music Room in Europe," which will shortly be published by Mr. John Lane.
A few bars of music written and signed by Handel would now be worth quite £20 or £25; and some day the musical autographs of Edward Elgar will fetch very high prices.
Much of his music seems to have been written out by Smart.
On the higher ground was the Temple of Olympian Jove all adorned with statues of gold and silver, and served by a number of priests with music and lights in golden Candelabra.
I am not of those Heliconian wits, Whose pleasing strains the court's known humour fits, But a poor rural shepherd, that for need Can make sheep music on an oaten reed.
The exercises close withmusic by the band, or a burlesque colloquy.
The usual dresses of the Doctor and of the Bachelor in Music are nearly the same as those of Law and Physic.
The 'Fair Harvard' having been sung by the class, all adjourned to the College green, where such as were so disposed danced to the music of a fine band.
None who have ever handled a musical instrument before are allowed to become members of the band, lest the music should be too sweet and regular to comport with the general order of the parade.
The dress worn by the Doctor of Music on public occasions is a rich white damask silk gown, with sleeves and facings of crimson satin, a hood of the same material, and a round black velvet cap.
Presently music was heard approaching, such as I had never heard before.
Music from the Keeseville Band who were present followed; the flying artillery fired another salute; the fife and drums struck up; and the Invincibles took their winding way to the University, where they were disbanded in good season.
In the English universities, a Bachelor of Music must enter his name at some college, and compose and perform a solemn piece of music, as an exercise before the University.
After the speeches are concluded and the music has ceased, the President rises and calls the name of the hero of the evening, who ascends the stage and stands before the high dignitary.
The gate is a fine example of the early Mogul style; it contains the Naubat khana, or music gallery, where the royal kettledrums announced the Emperor's arrival or departure, and all state functions.
No music or festivities were allowed; the wearing of jewels, the use of perfumes and luxuries of all kinds were forbidden.
Life seemed suddenly to have become an unreal thing--the crowds of well-dressed diners, the gentle splashing of the water from the fountains in the winter garden, the distant murmuring of music from behind the canopy of palms.
The man took up his instrument, waved his hand, and the music re-commenced in a subdued note.
I do not sing the old things, for the new are far better, the famous Greek musician Timotheus had said four centuries earlier, and the decay of Greek music was dated from that period.
In the early training with many, as with Milton's father, music was a passion; there was nothing illiberal or narrow.
Thinking that music out of an ill-tuned vina was hardly the same thing, I forced another four-anna bit on the boy and sent him away.
Merry drops slanting from west to the east;" merrier by far to Jaimul's ears than all the marriage music was that low rumble from the canopy of purple cloud, and the discordant scream of the peacock telling of the storm to come.
They had not come for alms, only to make music for the Presence out of gratitude.
Such music baffles human talk, And gags each genial guest; A grillroom orchestra can baulk All efforts to digest, Till the chops will not lie still, but walk All night upon one's chest.
But when his own time came, and he drifted with her out upon the changing floor to the music of the latest waltz from Paris, his jealousies and anxieties melted from him like a mantle of snow.
Afterward John remembered that first night as a daze of many colours, of quick sensory impressions, of music soft as a voice in love, and of the beauty of things, lights and shadows, and motions and faces.
Never being sure whether dancing was going on or not, the hind legs played safe by going through a series of steps whenever the music started playing.
For weeks I wanted to slip out of the house at dark and forget the stuffiness of life with music and cocktails and a girl to make me young.
The music itself, blurred by a loud trombone, became hot and shadowy, a languorous overtone to the scraping of many shoes and slippers.
Late one afternoon when the ruby and ermine music room was quiet, they spent an hour there together.
That night, when a last breath of music drifted down from the highest tower, they each lay awake, happily dreaming over the separate minutes of the day.
They danced; and as he held her hand and uttered a few words, almost whispered, the words sounded to the listening ear like a part of the music to which they kept time.
Through this white stillness there came marching a regiment of men, without fife or drum, moving to the music of a refrain which lifted and fell on the quiet air.
What better music for a lonely old bachelor than children's voices?
A long procession of barges swept after him with music and song, while the ships in the harbor, covered with flags, fired salutes in his honor.
To the great bull's ears it was the sweetest music he could dream of--the only music, in fact, that interested him.
It was a deeply sonorous, booming call, with a harsh catch in it, but softened to music by the distance.
Many dogs, too, certainly appear to be put out, if not to be made afraid, on hearing the music of a brass band.
The misery of a dog when street music is going on is very suggestive of a state of uneasiness if not of fully developed fear.
A child outside the temple of art hears its music before he sees its veiled beauties.
Many babies welcome the new and beautiful sounds of music with a joyous greeting.
Mozart, without a special genius for dramatic music, wrote Die Zauberflöte to a bad libretto with as great a perfection as the music to Don Giovanni, which had a good one.
It is all I need to make my life perfect, for the very "Spirit of Delight" that Shelley wrote of dwells in my little home; it is full of the music of birds in the garden and children in the long-arched verandah.
His music has never the sudden bird's flight, the thrill, pause, and unaccountable ecstasy of the very finest lyrics of Blake or of Coleridge; one never wholly forgets the artist in the utterance.
He is seized by hallucinations, haunted by sounds: the hysteria of Schumann, the morbid exaltation of Berlioz, communicate themselves to him in the music that besieges his brain.
I long to catch the subtle music of their fairy dances and make a poem with a rhythm like the quick irregular wild flash of their sudden movements.
No poet has ever loved or praised the sea as Swinburne has loved and praised it; and to no poet has it been given to create music with words in so literal an analogy with the inflexible and vital rhythmical science of the sea.
Mr. Stone sent for the young man and put him to work, and the next morning he knew the young man had written Robin Hood, and since then he has written most of the plays with music presented anywhere in America.
The | |music was furnished by the birds, which were at | |their best on this bridal day.
After this dinner a | |programme of music was given in the east room and | |the evening was a charming success.
