Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;

Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin,

Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 413.

You think they are crusaders sent

From some infernal clime,

To pluck the eyes of sentiment

And dock the tail of Rhyme,

To crack the voice of Melody

And break the legs of Time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): The Music-Grinders.

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column,

In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. (From Schiller.)

Oh, could you view the melody

Of every grace

And music of her face,

You 'd drop a tear;

Seeing more harmony

In her bright eye

Than now you hear.

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658): Orpheus to Beasts.

What fairy-like music steals over the sea,

Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?

Mrs. C. B. Wilson (—— -1846): What Fairy-like Music.