 TO 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...  The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 292by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...have That less is more than need, and more is less 'I ban the great heart's goodwill. SYDNEY DOBEIX. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory...they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed ; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...answer'd me the bird of dusky beak, " The Rose, the Rose of Love blushes on Leilah's cheek." WM THACKERAY. TO 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 heaped for the beloved's bed ; And so thy thoughts, when thou... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 428 pages
...of imagination in relation to two other senses is accurately described in the lines of Shelley— " Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory;...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken." f Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, part i., chap. 3. memory, or be reproduced in the mind... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 912 pages
...kaleidoscope which reflects what is before it in an infinite variety of new forms and dispositions."3 " Music when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken." — Shelley. See Hunt, Imagination and Fancy; Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Edin. Revicw... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 pages
...earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea ; What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me ? 1820 TO Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory...when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. 1821. LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR. I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 pages
...the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea ; What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me ? TO Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory;...when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. 1821. LINES TO AN INDIAN AIK. I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. * W. Wordsworth Is lovely yet; CCLXXXVIII Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory—...they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed ; And so thy thoughts, when Thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.... | |
 | Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere - 1863 - 444 pages
...successors of the present time, and give them a fragrance that our exhausted organs cannot supply. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory....violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. SHELLEY. And now by degrees the action of all our senses is impaired ; the things we once so much relished... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...despair and madness please: our joys below it can improve, and antedate the bliss above. A. POPE FS II. I MUSIC, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory...they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, are heap'd for the beloved's bed; and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, love itself shall slumber on.... | |
 | Thomas Kingsmill Abbott - 1864 - 204 pages
...The sweet song that we have listened to with delight, is still singing itself over in our ears — " Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory;...violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken."* This is indeed a case of the more general law, of great importance, although hardly noticed by psychologists,... | |
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