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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MINUET OF MOZART'S, by SARA TEASDALE Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the dimly lighted room
Last Line: Was drowned within the wave of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
First Line: Across the dimly lighted room
Last Line: Was drowned within the wave of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Across the dimly lighted room
The violin drew wefts of sound,
Airily they wove and wound
And glimmered gold against the gloom.
I watched the music turn to light,
But at the pausing of the bow,
The web was broken and the glow
Was drowned within the wave of night.
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ELEGY FOR MY BROTHER by NORMAN DUBIE
ROBESPIERRE AND MOZART AS STAGE by ROBERT LOWELL
MOZART'S REQUIEM by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS
MOZART, 1935 by WALLACE STEVENS
MOZART by SARAH MARGARET FULLER