...mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild. ecstasy ? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal, — yet, do not grieve? She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love,...

...mad pursuit? What struggle to escape! What pipes aud timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? 2. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can thoso trees be bare ; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet,...

...man and poor. Stanza 30. And lucent sirups, tinct with cinnamon. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tones. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye...

...painted sides, with scenes to which Keats' exquisite lines are as applicable as to any Grecian urn — "Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can thote trees be bare : Bold lover, nerer, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet,...

...unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, yo soft pipes, play on . Not to the- sensual ear, but, moro endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth,...trees be bare ; Bold lover, never, never canst thou kis«, Though winning near the goal — yet do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy...

...love such as mortals demand. Still, that may be all, for aught that we have yet seen. " Fair yonth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song,...those trees be bare ; Bold lover, never, never, canst thon kiss, Though winning near the goal, — yet do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thon hast not...

...finely the sense in which the spiritual existence of that beauty has been prolonged. " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, bnt, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone." Other poets there have been, and are, who...

...legend," "In Tempe or the dales of Arcady," — with the true creative faculty^ exclaim " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on!" 1 The music of the Romans was, in early times, rude and coarse. From the Etruscans they derived their...

...addressing which, when he congratulates them for their perpetuity, the poet says, — " Fair child, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare. Ah ! happy, happy boughs ! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu : And happy...

...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. ODE ON A GEECIAN UEN. BYRON. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...pipes, play on ; Not to the sensual ear, but more endeared Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave...