Love Poems – Page 2755
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A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day, 1687
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, / This universal frame began; / When Nature underneath a heap … -
The Spell
From the French by Gertrude Hall / “Son joyeux, importun, d’un clavecin sonore.” / —PÉTRUS BOREL. … -
The Passions
An Ode for Music / WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, / While yet in early Greece she sung, … -
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music
An Ode / ’T WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won / By Philip’s warlike son: … -
Beethoven’s Third Symphony
Passion and pain, the outcry of despair, / The pang of the unattainable desire, / And youth’s delight in pleasures that expire, … -
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva
Beneath the warrior’s helm, behold / The flowing tresses of the woman! / Minerva, Pallas, what you will— … -
On a Fan
That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour / (Ballade) / CHICKEN-SKIN, delicate, white, … -
Hack and Hew
Hack and Hew were the sons of God / In the earlier earth than now: / One at his right hand, one at his left, … -
The Axe
From “Malcolm’s Katie” / HIGH grew the snow beneath the low-hung sky, / And all was silent in the wilderness; … -
Labor
Pause not to dream of the future before us; / Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o’er us; / Hark! how Creation’s deep, musical chorus, …
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