For Music
1788-1824
THERE be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o'er the deep;
Whose breast is gently heaving,
As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.
DayPoems Poem No. 550
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/550.html">For Music by George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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