Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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First Line: Little conjurer of keys
Last Line: Little conjurer of keys.
Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs


LITTLE conjurer of keys,
You shall play me, an you please,
From the masters, music-blessed,
Playing what I love the best:

Something sweet of Schumann's make,
Something sad for Chopin's sake;
Then a waltz wth gayer graces
Born of Liszt and pleasant places.

Next, to sway my dreaming soul,
Play a Schubert barcarole;
And, to wake me from the trance,
Just a tricksy Spanish dance.

Now a fugue of Bach's, a song
Weaving thoughts of right and wrong;
And a thing of airy tone
That belongs to Mendelssohn.

A sonata-strain whose grief
Gave Beethoven's heart relief;
Last a melody divine
From the soul of Rubenstein.

Playing thus, the warp of life,
Dark of hue and sorrow-rife,
Shall be gladdened fold on fold
With a woof of sunny gold,
Woven from your melodies,
Little conjurer of keys.





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