Date: 1818
"But poetry makes these odds all even. It is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind, untying as it were 'the secret soul of harmony.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1820
"A moment's thought is passion's passing bell"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"Only a sense / Remains of them, like the omnipotence / Of music, when the inspired voice and lute / Languish, ere yet the responses are mute, / Which through the deep and labyrinthine soul, / Like echoes through long caverns, wind and roll."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience is the boon / That keeps the jarring mind in tune"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an Aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever-changing melody."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1848
"Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody! / Attuning still the soul to tenderness"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1865
"Lilac and star and bird, twined with the chant of my soul, / With the holders holding my hand, nearing the call of the bird, / There in the fragrant pines, and the cedars dusk and dim."
preview | full record— Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Date: 1900, 1901
"Deep in our souls we should hear the strains of our inner life’s unbroken melody,--a music that is ofttimes gay, but more frequently plaintive and always original."
preview | full record— Bergson, Henri-Louis (1859-1941)