A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like "four-and-twenty Blackbirds in a pie; II.
Approach, ye minstrels, try the soothing strain, Diffuse the tuneful lenitives of pain: No sounds, alas!
Far from me now be ev'ry tuneful Maid, I neither ask, nor can receive their aid.
The river, plashing on its sandy bars, makes faint, tuneful murmur.
A dove cooed softly from an adjacent thorn-brake, and bees returning to the old basket hive set in a nook in the wall, made a tuneful hum upon the sensuous air.
He thought he could have sat for ever in that enchanted glade, gazing into the beautiful face and listening to the modulation of that low, tuneful voice.
Tchaikovsky’s passionate melody, reinforced by inspired passages from Rimsky-Korsakov and by thetuneful strains of Rubinstein, would give prominence to what is best in Russian music.
Young men were sent to Italy to study the art of song, while famous Italian singers and composers visited Russia and made the public familiar with their tuneful art.
Somehow two warm, soft hands were clasped in mine, and the Christmas bells pealed out a tuneful chime, now softly low, now musically clear.
The love of music and of poetry distinguishes all classes of Venetians, even amongst the tuneful sons of Italy.
At the approach of the new moon, the shepherd took up his flute to play a tune; but it was mute, for the fair princess was no longer there to listen to its tuneful notes.
Thus, instead of only practising a desultory accomplishment, she was able to compose and arrange her tuneful ideas correctly.
However sung, the song, which makes the uplands tuneful all day and every day from April to August, does not vary its quality, which is as fine as the vesper sparrow's.
Ye blow upon the sod that wraps my friend: How can I to the tuneful strain attend?
I know my need, I know thy giving hand, I crave thy friendship at thy kind command; But there are such who court thetuneful nine-- Heavens!
To give my counsels all in one, Thy tuneful flame still careful fan; Preserve the dignity of man, With soul erect; And trust, the universal plan Will all protect.
No; every muse shall join her tuneful tongue, And future ages hear his growing fame.
Delighted doubly then, my Lord, You'll wander on my banks, And listen mony a grateful bird Return youtuneful thanks.
Some teach the bard, a darling care, The tuneful art.
Of that blue sky, as if therein did poise A silver boat; and then a tuneful noise Broke from the copse where late a breeze was slain; And nightingales, in ecstasy of pain, Did break their hearts with singing the old joys.
Beneath our common mother's breast, No name more spotless doth engage My muse, or grace my tuneful page.
Stanley was among Old Bytown's well remembered throng, Whom memory's tuneful measure bears Back from the shades of other years.
Kiss me again as I kiss you; Kiss me again; For all your tuneful nights of dew, In this your time of rain, For all your kisses when Spring was new.
O dead delights, is it such bliss, That tuneful Spring?
Now the tuneful waves Of organ tremble; Now the tunefulprayers God's choir resemble!
Much ivy crept around, a comely growth, The tuneful haunt of swallows.
There came a merry voice Forth from those lips of rose, As tireless through its fringing flowers The tuneful brooklet flows, And with the nurslings feet Engaged in busy play It made the parents' pleasant home A joyance all the day.
The tuneful voice Of children fill'd his desolate home with joy, And round his household board their beauty gleam'd, Making his spirit glad.
The exulting bird that sings Mid the green curtains of its leafy nest His tuneful trust untroubled there to live, And there to die, may meet the archer's shaft When next it spreads the wing.
How blest to rise With song of praise, unto that tuneful choir Whose harps are ne'er unstrung, and have no tone Of weary dissonance.
Pupils,--her guiding voice, Her sweetly warbled strain Urging your spirits to be wise With daily, tuneful harmonies Ye shall not hear again.
Even as he went down the stairs, he was telling himself that here was a famous occasion for a roundel, and that like the committed linnets of the tuneful cavalier, he too would make his prison musical.
Your tuneful songs such deep impression make, And of such awful, beauteous strength partake, Each stanza seems an ox, each line a steak.
Onward glides the boat; the oars rise and fall with a tuneful splash.
When the full organ joins the tuneful choir, The immortal powers incline their ear; Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire, While solemn airs improve the sacred fire; And angels lean from heaven to hear.
