Thy voice
Is a celestial melody. [ Longfellow ]

Loudness is a foe to melody. [ Proverb ]

Little dew-drops of celestial melody. [ Carlyle, of Burns' songs ]

Music is a harbinger of eternal melody. [ Mozart ]

My mother, is an expression of music and melody. [ Mme. Clairon ]

Rhyme without melody and sense is an abortion of the muse. [ Iscanus ]

Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart. [ Mildmay ]

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. [ Coleridge ]

Rhyme is the elementary art of the poet; but at the same time he must possess that vehement passion for melody that buoys his speech into song, his footsteps into tune, and makes his life move in a melodious rhythm. [ Bentivoglio ]

Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. [ Shenstone ]

There are two things which help to make music - melody and harmony. Now, as most of you know, there is melody in music when the different sounds of the same tune follow each other so as to give us pleasure; there is harmony in music when different sounds, instead of following each other, come at the same time so as to give us pleasure. [ C. Kingsley ]

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]