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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ISLES OF THE SIRENS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease, stranger, cease those piercing notes
Last Line: The man of many woes.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)
First Line: Cease, stranger, cease those piercing notes
Last Line: The man of many woes.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)
CEASE, Stranger, cease those piercing notes,
The craft of Siren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice, that floats
Upon the languid wires.
Music's ethereal fire was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from Heaven,
And purge the dross away.
Weak self! with thee the mischief lies,
Those throbs a tale disclose;
Nor age nor trial has made wise
The Man of many woes.
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