Lord Byron Quotes on Music

“Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.”

“Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.”

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“Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment—born and dying With the blest tone which made me!”

enjoymentborn breathing viewless

“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.”

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Lord Byron on Music