Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOZARTIAN AIR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Your name to know I cared not Last Line: Bids youth and childhood back again. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Voices; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
YOUR name to know I cared not Until I heard you speak, And when I knew I dared not Save in silence say it over, Musing like a lover On a sweet Mozartian air. 'Twas when I heard you speaking, Yes, then, I knew I cared; Your voice the silence breaking Like a sweet Mozartian air Woke echoes everywhere, Quickened music on my tongue. Like a Mozartian sweetness, Gay and melancholy, Subtle, yet deceitless. That other music's voice I heard not, Other echoes stirred not, All was echo of your note. Not to me you spoke then, 'Twas I that overheard. But O the sweetness woke then! As when a loved Mozartian air Falling on midnight's care Bids youth and childhood back again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS |
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