Stanzas for Music
Stanzas for Music
Original Text
Byron, Works, 17 vols. (London: John Murray, 1832-33). PR 4351 M6 1832 ROBA. George Gordon, lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies (London: J. Murray, 1815). B-10 3742 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto).
1 There be none of Beauty's daughters
2 With a magic like thee;
3And like music on the waters
4 Is thy sweet voice to me:
5When, as if its sound were causing
6The charmed ocean's pausing,
7The waves lie still and gleaming,
8And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:
9 And the midnight moon is weaving
10 Her bright chain o'er the deep;
11Whose breast is gently heaving,
12 As an infant's asleep:
13So the spirit bows before thee,
14To listen and adore thee;
15With a full but soft emotion,
16Like the swell of Summer's ocean.
Publication Start Year
1815
RPO poem Editors
J. D. Robins
RPO Edition
2RP 2.166.
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