Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE


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FANTASY, by             Poem Explanation         Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an air for which I'd give all else
Last Line: In that remembered other life I had.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


THERE is an air for which I'd give all else
That Mozart, Weber, or Rossini wrote,
An old air full of languid, mournful spells
That moves me only by its charm remote.

And every time I hear its music heave
My soul grows young again 'neath Louis Treize,
Two hundred years ago ... I see at eve
A fair green slope whereon the sunbeams blaze;

And then a red-brick castle cornice-bound
In stone, with crimson gleaming from the lead,
Engirdled by great parks, and moat-enwound
With flowery waters by a river fed.

And then a lady at a window high,
Blond-haired, black-eyed, in olden garments clad ...
Perchance I saw her in long time gone by
In that remembered other life I had.





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