"Tuneful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when with joy we sung, Were wont their tuneful parts to bear, With silent strings, neglected hung, On willow trees, ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse
... Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high Arise, ye more than dead! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... these poems of the lights That now run over them, nor brief the doubt In my own breast if such should interrupt (Or follow so irreverently) the voice Of Attic men, of women such as thou, Of sages no less sage than heretofore, Of pleaders no less eloquent, of souls Tender no less, or tuneful, or devout. Unvalued, even by myself, are they,— Myself, who reared them; but a high command Marshalled them in their station; here they are; Look round; see what supports these parasites. Stinted in growth ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various
... did her tender heart rejoice, What prayers she then preferred, That she might with her tuneful ...
— Ballads - Founded On Anecdotes Relating To Animals • William Hayley
... then, let hardy poets sing, And be her tuneful laureates and upholders, Who do not feel as if they had a ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
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