...has made French a classical language, saturated with the genius of the ancients, * *' Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leare Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare j Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though...

...wreathed horn ! and as Keats felt when writing in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn" these lines: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore,...more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches...

...Nightingale." To the urn the poet says, Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter still; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual...more endear'd Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone .... (11-14) But the Grecian urn does not have the final word; it is in "To Autumn" and the fragment...

...passage to his famous Second Chapter, "Things, Theories, Even-ing Themselves Out." Keats wrote, "... What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard...pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: . .. And happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping...

...roof to heaven. Perhaps they typify the unrest of the times. The Sun, March 18, 1917 Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore...soft pipes play on, Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared. Pipe to the spirit, ditties of no tone. —KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn, ALBERT RYDER is dead....

..."sweeter" to the reader who may recalls Keats's poem from memory, especially stanza 2: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave...

...dwell with beauty a few paragraphs longer, fleshing out this particular Keatsian swoon. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear 'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. For a poem so well studied as the "Ode on a Grecian...

...of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time. 5489 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' Heard melodies what we would like in life and you would be surprised...few would say, 'Not to be disabled'. We accept our l endeared. Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. 5490 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' For ever piping songs...

...mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? U Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever will thou love,...

...verwundert daher beim wiederholten Lesen auch der Beginn der zweiten Strophe weniger stark: »Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter; therefore...but more endear'd/, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone«'5. Auch die letzte Strophe nimmt noch einmal die Parallelsierung von Kunst und Ewigkeit, von...