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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MAZURKA OF CHOPIN, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poet's Biography First Line: Play on, play on, the low lights wane Last Line: World of a wonder-dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849) | |||
Play on, play on, the low lights wane, So, softly, softly play! For your fingers draw me away, away, And dreamland comes again. Are you 'ware of little stars in a pale sky! Play on, and say no word! There is scarce the breath of a midnight sigh, Or a frond of the fern-wood stirred; Was there ever a night so magic still? Only a low moon is peeping Through the sway of aspens sleeping, And a ripple frets the rushes in the rill: Are you 'ware of little feet upon the grass, Tripping, rushing, Hardly brushing Any feather of the frailest as they pass, Of a twinkle of infinite tiny feet, And the kissing of tiny kisses? Never was night so summer-sweet Blessed of the moon as this is! They are threading in endless mazes, Lifting the drowsy fold Of the lids of the sleeping daisies For a look at the eyes of gold: Gossamer robes of delicate weft Cling light on the moony air, Rosy petals, a pardoned theft, Are bound on the streaming hair; Now round and round in a linking chain, Round and round and away again! They are dancing to the ripple they are moving, Keeping time to the glinting of the star; There's a glowworm for the lantern of their loving, And wedding-bells are ringing where the heather-flowers are. Can you hear their little voices? You would hear If it were not for the ripple on the stream: Still, for a moment, now you hear, Marvellous sweetly, clear and near, Under that silver beam, Songs of a wonder-world, my dear, World of a wonder-dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHOPIN'S NOCTURNE IN G MINOR by ARLO BATES A CHOPIN PRELUDE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON ADELE AUS DER OHE by RICHARD WATSON GILDER A CHOPIN FANTASY (ON REMEMBRANCE OF A PRELUDE) by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON THE GOAL OF THE WORLD by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 12. CHOPIN by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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