The facility and rapidity with which he could make a song about anyone whom he might choose as the subject of his poetical fancy, was very amusing; he must have equalled many of the Italian improvisatori.
Saul heard, and in his heart of hearts obeyed; And his whole life thenceforth obedience was-- Whereof the greater song remains to sing, If so be God vouchsafe such grace to me.
Chief among these minor singers stands John Howard Payne, whose immortal song has found a home in nearly every land.
Robinson grew so tired of hearing the song in which he is introduced that he fled across the sea in despair.
The metre used is that in which the Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns is written, and the Finnish hero, Wainamoinen, in his gift of song and his brave adventures, is not unlike the great Hiawatha.
This poem is called The Rivulet and it shows the poet-child standing upon the banks of the little stream listening to the song of the birds or gathering wild flowers.
The songwas born in the darkness of a night of terrible anxiety, and when the dawn broke and found the flag still floating over the fort, an earnest of the victory to come, its triumphant measures seemed the fitting paean of American liberty.
It is surrounded by cherubim and seraphim, and sings the song of Moses and the Lamb on Mount Zion.
Whether he yet wanders as a pilgrim in this lower world, or whether he has joined the heavenly choir in the song of "redeeming love" in glory, I know not.
You will only meet a company of poor fellow-sinners, who love to speak and sing the praises of redeeming love; and I am sure, William, that is a song in which you will be willing to join them.
Here Swan shewed us a ballad to the tune of Mardike which was most incomparably wrote in a printed hand, which I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, and so I did not write it out.
So back again, and after a song or two in my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is out) sound very well, I went home and to bed.
In the evening in my cabin a great while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, &c.
I staid above to write and look over my new song book, which came last night to me from London in lieu of that that my Lord had of me.
The subject of the songwas the courtship of Isaac.
He has put a new song into my mouth, and enabled me to say, "What time I am afraid I will trust in Thee.
The song of praise is ascending, and sinners are crying for mercy.
I had heard the melancholy song of the slaves departing in the morning.
The poor things on leaving Ghat, as is their wont on encountering The Desert, got up a song in choruses, to give an impetus to their feelings in starting.
The innocent little creatures remind me of my days of childhood, when I revelled in the woods and corn-fields of Lincolnshire, listening to the song of birds in early fresh spring morn, or bright summer day.
No; their song is, and was, and always will be, because the spontaneous voice of distressed nature, appealing to the justice and help of the Author of all being!
My sweetest enjoyment in Ghat is to listen to thesong of the tiny singing sparrows hopping about my terrace.
There is no rope can strangle song And not for long death takes his toll.
To-day the starry roof of Heaven rings With psalms a soldier made to praise his Lord; And David rests beneath Eternal wings, Song on his lips, and in his hand a sword.
The song within your heart could never rise Until love bade it spread its wings and soar.
He had come to complete the declaration which the song had interrupted on the lake, and at the first hint the chords that had been touched by the unknown singer vibrated sharply, bringing back her old heartache.
It was an oldsong and the air was one familiar the world round.
The phrase of the song that had brought her to tears that starry night on the lake when Dan Harwood had asked her to marry him smote her again.
And many a song and many a lecherous lay, that Christ for His great mercy forgive me the sin .
Moreover, the most expansive enjoyment is often natural to those who have otherwise least freedom; witness the bank-holiday excitement of our own days and the negro passion for song and dance.
What if he talked with too lofty an air of birth and lineage, or allowed his enthusiasm about Scotland and Scottish song to lead him into the realms of rodomontade: may not an old man have his harmless foibles?
Come here, and by this divine lamp you shall read and understand whatever has been great and noble and pure and beautiful in all the song and story of the world!
She seemed a little surprised: it was a strange song to ask for on a night of farewell; but she did as she was bidden.
In the songof the insects there were now omens, threats.
But the cattle in the barn were trampling, trampling, trampling, and above this noise could be heard a humming like the song of innumerable bees.
The spot is desolate, and the stillness only broken by the occasional cry of some wild animal, the song of the bird in the forest and the ripple of waves on the shore.
Mr. Bourg, were desired to seat themselves, when a Malecete captain began a song and dance in honor and praise of the Conference and those concerned therein.
On his finishing, a Micmac captain began another song and dance to the same purpose.
She hurried from the room, a snatch of song on her lips.
This silence was accentuated by the preceding noise, as though the singers had checked their maudlin song in mid-career.
Then sing and spring, then dance and sing, that through the wood our song of praise may sound, and echo repeat it all around!
The father is heard in the distance with a joyous song and enters in a joyful mood.
O yes, that's better far; and sing a song to keep us in time!
Then one song and another was called for, and the night rang with ballad and barcarole, glee and round.
This was a favorite song of the Merryweather boys, and they never knew which verse to leave out, so they generally sang all nine of them.
Here was no conspiracy against the people but a romance, a tale of lovers, which some poet might well make a song of for all true lovers to sing.
The song flowed from habit, the tears flowed from the heart.
It was the beginning of a songwhich he was nearly humming.
I'd rather hear my baby's coo, That little gurgling coo, Than rarest song or symphony Born out of music's mystery Which once did woo.
It is sweeter than song ever heard, More precious than love's spoken word.
He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark so blithe as he; And this the burden of his song For ever used to be: "I care for nobody!
Rowley, "I'll sing you a song that I have just made.
There are few birds or none, and indeed I have heard no bird-song since I have been here.
I read the old verses over, and in my walks the song keeps breaking in.
Those that wail most feel the least; they throw their griefs to the winds; but the Indian is too proud to be pitied, and hides the grief in his heart, singing his war-song to cover its workings.
I loved to sit under the shadow of the rugged rocks, and to hear the murmured song of the falling brook.
This spirit is at war with His precepts, at whose birth the harps of angels breathed the song of "Peace on earth, and good-will to men.
The heart of little Charles leaped for joy, when he heard the sweetsong of the earliest bird.
On pinion strong It fled with dazzling breast, And soon I heard its matron song Amid its chirping nest.
These peaks of song we see foreshortened or in changed perspective or from a different angle of observation.
Even his choice of blank verse for Paradise Lost he vindicated as a case of "ancient liberty recovered to heroic songfrom this troublesome and modern bondage of riming.
