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Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats.
(Ernest Lehman (b. 1920), U.S. screenwriter. Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), The Sound of Music, to Herr Zeller (1965).)
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Tell her that goes
With song upon her lips
But sings not out the song, nor knows
The maker of it, some other mouth,
May be as fair as hers,
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Envoi (1919) (l. 17-21). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.)
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She will sing the song that pleaseth you,
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Glendower, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 1, l. 213-5.
Translating his daughter's words to her husband.)
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She will sing the song that pleaseth you,
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Glendower, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 1, l. 213-5.
Translating his daughter's words to her husband.)
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Home Thoughts, From Abroad, st. 2, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845).)
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Home Thoughts, From Abroad, st. 2, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845).)
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I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "The Crazy Woman.")
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Modred, whose magic song
Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head.
(Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Bard, a Pindaric Ode (l. 5-6). . .
Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and the Welsh [Thomas Gray]. D. C. Tovey, ed. (1922) Reprint Services.)
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