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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MUSIC AND MEMORY, by JOHN ALBEE Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchantress, touch no more that strain
Last Line: Still bringing all the pain they cost.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Transcendentalism
First Line: Enchantress, touch no more that strain
Last Line: Still bringing all the pain they cost.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Transcendentalism
ENCHANTRESS, touch no more that strain!
I know not what it may contain,
But in my breast such mood it wakes
My very spirit almost breaks.
Thoughts come from out some hidden realm
Whose dim memorials overwhelm,
Still bring not back the things I lost, --
Still bringing all the pain they cost.
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