By shallow rivers, to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto xii. St. 70.

Calm on the listening ear of night

Come Heaven's melodious strains,

Where wild Judea stretches far

Her silver-mantled plains.

Edmund H Sears (1810-1876): Christmas Song.

Without the meed of some melodious tear.

John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas. Line 14.