Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ADDRESS TO MY HARP, by MARY TIGHE Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my loved harp! Companion dear Last Line: To pensive gloom a silent prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres | ||||||||
Oh, my loved Harp! companion dear! Sweet soother of my secret grief, No more thy sounds my soul must cheer, No more afford a soft relief. When anxious cares my heart oppressed, When doubts distracting tore my soul, The pains which heaved my swelling breast Thy gentle sway could oft control. Each well remembered, practised strain, The cheerful dance, the tender song, Recalled with pensive, pleasing pain Some image loved and cherished long. Where joy sat smiling o'er my fate, And marked each bright and happy day, When partial friends around me sat, And taught my lips the simple lay; And when by disappointment grieved I saw some darling hope o'erthrown, Thou hast my secret pain relieved; O'er thee I wept, unseen, alone. Oh! must I leave thee, must we part, Dear partner of my happiest days? I may forget thy much-loved art, Unused thy melody to raise, But ne'er can memory cease to love Those scenes where I thy charms have felt, Though I no more thy power may prove, Which taught my softened heart to melt. Forced to forego with thee this spot, Endeared by many a tender tie, When rosy pleasure blessed my lot, And sparkled in my cheated eye. Yet still thy strings, in Fancy's ear, With soothing melody shall play; Thy silver sounds I oft shall hear, To pensive gloom a silent prey. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING by GREGORY ORR TO AN AEOLIAN HARP by SARA TEASDALE THE AEOLIAN HARP by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE HARP by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN by HERMAN MELVILLE THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL by MARIANNE MOORE RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP by HENRY DAVID THOREAU AEOLIAN HARP (1) by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ON RECEIVING A BRANCH OF MEZEREON WHICH FLOWERED AT WOODSTOCK by MARY TIGHE |
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