Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON MUSIC, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR



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First Line: Many love music but for music's sake
Last Line: A spark of life hath glisten'd and hath gone.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


MANY love music but for music's sake;
Many because her touches can awake
Thoughts that repose within the breast half dead,
And rise to follow where she loves to lead.
What various feelings come from days gone by!
What tears from far-off sources dim the eye!
Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play,
And melodies swell, pause, and melt away,
Mind how at every touch, at every tone,
A spark of life hath glisten'd and hath gone.





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