Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG AND MUSIC, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: O leave your hand where it lies cool
Last Line: Now while the song withdraws.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


O LEAVE your hand where it lies cool
Upon the eyes whose lids are hot:
Its rosy shade is bountiful
Of silence, and assuages thought.
O lay your lips against your hand
And let me feel your breath through it,
While through the sense your song shall fit
The soul to understand.

The music lives upon my brain
Between our hands within mine eyes;
It stirs your lifted throat like pain,
An aching pulse of melodies.
Lean nearer, let the music pause:
The soul may better understand
Your music, shadowed in your hand,
Now while the song withdraws.





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