Can any one say, after hearing this "Canzonetta sull 'aria," that it is unnatural to melodize conversation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference

Poets, my friend, are the most absolute impostors, .. they melodize their rhymed music on phases of emotion they have never experienced; as for instance our Lameate yonder will string a pretty sonnet on the despair of love, he knowing nothing of despair, .. he will write of a broken heart, his own being unpricked by so much as a pin's point of trouble; and he will speak in his verso of dying for love when he would not let his little finger ache for the sake of a woman who worshipped him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

Can melodize each note in Nature's book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

And melodize with man's blest nature there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference

And melodize with man’s blest nature there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference