SONG

Related Subjects: Ballad, Harmony, Melody, Music, Singing

1. Would you have your songs endure?
   Build on the human heart.—BROWNING, Sordello
   

2. Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
   Perhaps turn out a sermon.—BURNS, Epistle to a Young Friend
   

3. A tune is more lasting than the voice of the birds.
   A song is more lasting than the riches of the world.—PADRAIC COLUM, Polonius and the Ballad-Singer
   

4. Songs without words are best.—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Peter Ibbetson
   

5. Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.—ANDREW FLETCHER
   

6. What will a child learn sooner than a song?—HORACE
   

7. The self-same song that found a path
   Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
   She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
   The same that oft-times hath
   Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
   Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.—KEATS, Ode to a Nightingale
   

8. Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?—MATTHEW PRIOR, A Better Answer
   

9. Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
   That old and antique song we heard last night:
   Methought it did relieve my passion much,
   More than light airs and recollected terms
   Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

10. I had rather than forty shillings I had my
    Book of Songs and Sonnets here.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

11. I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. I would rather build a fine sonnet than have built St. Paul's.—ALEXANDER SMITH, DREAMTHORP
    

12. The song that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed.—TENNYSON, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade