All Sung

Topics: classic

What shall I sing when all is sung, And every tale is told, And in the world is nothing young That was not long since old? Why should I fret unwilling ears With old things sung anew, While voices from the old dead years Still go on singing too? A dead man singing of his maid Makes all my rhymes in vain, Yet his poor lips must fade and fade, And mine shall kiss again. Why should I strive through weary moons To make my music true? Only the dead men knew the tunes The live world dances to.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"What shall I sing when all is sung,..."

Exploring the themes of classic, Richard Le Gallienne delivers a powerful performance in "All Sung"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

#classic

Related lines

"Her eyes are bluebells now, her voice a bird, And the long sighing grass her elegy; She who a woman was is now a star In th"

Richard Le Gallienne

"Simple am I, I care no whit For pelf or place, It is enough for me to sit And watch Dulcinea's face; To mark the light"

Richard Le Gallienne

"The Dcadent was speaking to his soul - Poor useless thing, he said, Why did God burden me with such as thou? The body were enough,"

Richard Le Gallienne

"'Our little babe,' each said, 'shall be Like unto thee' - 'Like unto thee!' 'Her mother's' - 'Nay, his father's' - 'eyes,' 'Dear cu"

Richard Le Gallienne

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky, And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, S"

John Clare

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Frank Sidgwick

"Her eyes are bluebells now, her voice a bird, ..."

About this line

Classified Tags

Related lines

Join our literary Sanctuary