"Unsung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... friend, make the Empire—paint the whole bally thing red, white an' blue—'unhonoured an' unsung, until the curtain's rung, the boys that made the Empire and ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... are still unsung; our best thoughts are still unuttered and must so remain until eyes and ears and hands are quickened by a diviner ...
— The California Birthday Book • Various
... Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.' ...
— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison
... wide, And in the heart of all, was Mystery— A something more than outer eye might see, A something more than ever ear might hear. The very birds that came and sang anear Did seem to syllable some faery tongue, And, singing much, to hold yet more unsung. And heard at whiles, with hollow wandering tone, Far off, as by some aery huntsmen blown, Faint-echoing horns, among the mountains wound, Made all the live ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... Muses of Pieria who give glory through song, come hither, tell of Zeus your father and chant his praise. Through him mortal men are famed or un-famed, sung or unsung alike, as great Zeus wills. For easily he makes strong, and easily he brings the strong man low; easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud,—Zeus who thunders aloft and ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
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