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That which is not worth speaking they sing.

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note, It seemed the music melted in the throat.

Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces When Malindy sings.

Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.

I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face.

When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.

Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing, "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

He the sweetest of all singers.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

They sing, they will pay.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of joy, when Fingal, king of shields, was there, and glowed at the deeds of his fathers.