English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

    “I framed to the harp
    Many an English ditty lovely well.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
    The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time,
    The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
    And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
    And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
    And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)