“Oh you who read some song I have sung
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
from The Poets Song in Poems of Passion 1883 edition
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Oh you who read some song I have sung
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
from The Poets Song in Poems of Passion 1883 edition
“Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung!”
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
"Lenore", st. 1 (1831).
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
Lovely Mary Donnelly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Kuvempu (1904–1994) Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker
"The Flower", a translation of his first Kannada poem "Poovu".
/ Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) Canadian singer-songwriter
Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists Watch it Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoU1Qkeizs <br class="br">The Way I Feel (1967) <br class="br">Context: There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run<br>And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun<br>Long before the white man and long before the wheel<br>When the green dark forest was too silent to be real...<br>Oh! The song of the future has been sung<br>All the battles have been won<br>On the mountain tops we stand<br>All the world at our command<br>We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
The Worship of Nature, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“Oh will you come with us
To find the song of the oil and the brush?”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)