Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUSIC, by ELIZA COOK


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First Line: Oh! Music! Gentle music!
Last Line: A foretaste of the bliss above!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


Oh! music! gentle music!
There's a magic in thy strain;
Come where thou wilt, in lady's bower,
Or on the battle plain.
The wild harp hath a witching spell
About its silver strings;
Can aught on earth excel the charm
Its pensive breathing flings?
'Tis music's, gentle music's power,
That steals the listening soul away,
Till man, entranced in rapture's dream,
Forgets he wears a form of clay.

Oh! music! stirring music!
I have seen the war-steed rest,
With dust upon his tired limbs,
And white foam on his chest;
Stretched, quivering with many a wound,
Upon the red sod lying;
His rider leaves him, for he deems
The gallant charger dying;
But hark! he hears the trumpet's blast,
He starts, he shakes his clotted mane;
Music! bold music fires his blood,
And brings him to the ranks again.

Oh! music! mighty music!
Thou art all of bliss on earth;
Thou givest the lovers' moonlight tale
And poets' song their birth.
There's not a heart, however rude,
However base it be,
But hath some slender string that yields
An answering note to thee!
With promised music heaven allures,
With golden harps, and cherubs' love;
Rejoice, then, that we have below
A foretaste of the bliss above!





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