Saturday, May 7, 2011

There be none of Beauty's daughters --Lord Byron

There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like Thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charméd ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o'er the deep,
Whose breast is gently heaving
As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

1 comment:

Candy said...

I love his poetry. He was around about the time of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of my favorite poets. I found an old poem book in an antique store one day. Lovely book to still be in such wonderful condition.