Without the meed of some melodious tear.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious birds sing madrigals.

A true friend sees the first tear... catches the second... and stops the third

Nothing dries more quickly than a tear