Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall... Littell's Living Age - Page 1991874Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1824 - 440 pages
...engraven. Girt by many an azure wave With which the clouds and mountains pave A lake's blue chasm. TO Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory—...they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee In the light of life's dim morning. November 5th, 1817. TO. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose Icaxcs, whon the rose is dead, A re heaped for the beloved's bed ; And >o thy thoughts, when thoii... | |
| English literature - 1827 - 334 pages
...that occasioned it, but will live in our own breasts, and in the recollection of others long after. ' Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.' JAMES FITZJAMES. HAS I. AN CHE RAY. THE HERO OF CIRCAS8IA. A NOTIC E of this interesting personage,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...memory yet." The pieces, that call to mind Beaumont and Fletcher, are such as the following : — " Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. " Rose-leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed ; And so thy thoughts, when... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...in the memory — Odors, when sweet violeta sicken, Uve within the seme they quicken. Rose-leaves, onversation is a sort of intoxication ; men are held...spell. líe has travelled much; and there is an ine »lumber on. TIME. vfiTHOMABLE Sea '. whose wave» are years, Orean of Time, whose waters of deep woe... | |
| Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...manner. We may append, in conclusion, Shelley's own lines: ' Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates on the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, •Live within the sense they quicken. THE BOOK OF DAYS. DISSOLUTION OT WALSISGHAM PBIORT. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Aie heaped... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...Girt by many an azure wave With which the clouds and mountains pive A lake's blue chasm. TO Mussc, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours,...they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed ; ' And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumher... | |
| 1835 - 842 pages
...passages, of whose exquisite beauty she has evidently not the slightest comprehension. She commences with "Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken." " Sicken" is here italicized ; and the author of the lt Poetry of Life" thinks the word so undeniably... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...liberty " staring," are suftiVOL. I. O ciently absurd to destroy the sublimity of the poem. To . •' Music, when soft voices die, ' ' Vibrates in the memory — " Odours, when sweet violets tiekea. " Live within the sense they quicken." A DIRGE. « * » • » " Ere the sun through heaven... | |
| Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...the earth, And the moon-beams kiss the sea, What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me ? Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose-leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed ; And so thy thoughts, when thou... | |
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