16 Metaphors for melody

His wildly warbling melodies, The storms that round them roll, Are types of the simplicity And grandeur of his soul.

Melody is the sensuous life of poetry.

Its least intolerable melodies were quotations from Faust,an assertion which he proved from time to time by singing, and not very softly either, the original themes to the wrath of all who sat within a twenty-five foot radius of them.

" "Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, whose melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought?

It has been prettily said that the melody of birds is the poor man's music, and that flowers are the poor man's poetry.

For a while I lay luxuriating as in the delusion of a pleasant dream, as though the melody that was abroad on the air was the voices of angels chanting their lullaby into the charmed ear of the sleeper.

"Melody is the essence of Music," said Mozart to Michael Kelly; "I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counter-points to hack post-horses.

'But the melody to which it is sung' 'Are such things written down?'

Its least intolerable melodies were quotations from Faust,an assertion which he proved from time to time by singing, and not very softly either, the original themes to the wrath of all who sat within a twenty-five foot radius of them.

"This melody, or varying the sound of each word so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the fine ear of that people.

The melody of verse was a province unoccupied, and Waller, forming his rhythm upon the modulation of Fairfax, and other poets of the maiden reign, exhibited in his very first poem striking marks of attention to the suavity of numbers.

There not only would the quaint melody of the negro "spirituals" swell instead of the more sophisticated airs of the hymn book, but every successful sermon would be a symphony and every prayer a masterpiece of concerted rhythm.

The melody of their verse is all their ownas original as the greatest art-forms of the masters.

The melody was a sweet and fitting finale of the day, swelling out and dying away in the high arches of the forest.

His matchless "Melodies" are the delight of all lovers of music, and are sung all over the world.

A taking melody is the first condition of even the loveliest song's obtaining popularity; and this hymn was sung for many years to various tunes, including chants, with no general recognition of its quality.

16 Metaphors for  melody