Stanzas For Music
by George Gordon, Lord Byron

(first published: 1815)


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  1.   There be none of Beauty’s daughters
  2.      With a magic like thee;
  3.   And like music on the waters
  4.      Is thy sweet voice to me:
  5.   When, as if its sound were causing
  6.   The charmed Ocean’s pausing,
  7.   The waves lie still and gleaming,
  8.   And the lulled winds seem dreaming:

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  9.   And the midnight Moon is weaving
  10.      Her bright chain o’er the deep;
  11.   Whose breast is gently heaving,
  12.      As an infant’s asleep:
  13.   So the spirit bows before thee,
  14.   To listen and adore thee;
  15.   With a full but soft emotion,
  16.   Like the swell of Summer’s ocean.

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