lyre's

God -- the Fathers said -- is like the musician who, touching the lyre strings, makes them vibrate; the sound is entirely the work of the musician, but it would not exist without the lyre's strings.

Archive 2008-03-09 papabear 2008

The hum in your heart, his lyre's still resonant strings.

Sonnets For Orpheus Hal Duncan 2005

The hum in your heart, his lyre's still resonant strings.

Archive 2005-10-01 Hal Duncan 2005

Pericles, Lamicus, and I all turned toward the low, mellifluous voice, like the throb of a lyre's strings.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

The Rigelian rushed to touch the lyre's polished frame.

Mind Meld Vornholt, John 1997

She touched the lyre's strings, gathered her last shreds of courage and hope, faced the stormy dragon and began to sing.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

His lyre's a wonder to behold; its frame is pearl, its strings are gold.

Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason

Of steeds, and arms and men, and wake the lyre's sweet string.

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

But oh! the joy, to hear her sing, and sing to the lyre's accompaniment.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

And the pipe is ever dropping honey, and the lyre's strings are ever strung.

Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1877