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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pant for the music which is divine Last Line: Invites to love with her kiss divine -- Subject(s): Music & Musicians | |||
I I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again. II Let me drink of the spirit of that sweet sound, More, oh, more, -- I am thirsting yet; It loosens the serpent which care has bound Upon my heart to stifle it: The dissolving strain through every vein Passes into my heart and brain. III As the scent of a violet withered up, Which grew by the brink of a silver lake, When the hot noon has drained its dewy cup, And mist there was none its thirst to slake -- And the violet lay dead while the odor flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue -- IV As one who drinks from a charmed cup Of foaming, and sparkling, and murmuring wine, Whom, a mighty enchantress filling up, Invites to love with her kiss divine -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINER NOTES TO AN IMAGINARY PLAYLIST by TERRANCE HAYES VARIATIONS: 13 by CONRAD AIKEN BELIEVE, BELIEVE by BOB KAUFMAN ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN MUSIC by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES THE POWER OF MUSIC by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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