“Music's golden tongue
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 3
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”
Poetry and Imagination <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
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