Music poems
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Le Violon d'Ingres
© Stallworthy Jon
Man Ray, inventive fellow,seeing the girl who artfor him hipped like a cello,portrayed her as that.
The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto 12
© Edmund Spenser
THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENEContayningTHE LEGEND OF SIR GUYON,OR OF TEMPERAUNCE
Astrophel and Stella: Sixt Song
© Sir Philip Sidney
O you that heare this voice,O you that see this face,Say whether of the choiceDeserues the former place:Feare not to judge this bate,For it is void of hate
Astrophel and Stella: Eight Song
© Sir Philip Sidney
In a groue most rich of shade,Where birds wanton musicke made,May then yong his pide weedes showing,New perfumed with flowers fresh growing, Astrophel with Stella sweete,Did for mutuall comfort meet,Both within themselues oppressed,But each in the other blessed
Astrophel and Stella: 80
© Sir Philip Sidney
Sweet swelling lip, well maist thou swell in pride,Since best wits thinke it were thee to admire;Natures praise, Vertues stall, Cupids cold fire,Whence words, not words, but heau'nly graces slideThe new Parnassus, where the Muses bide,Sweetner of musicke, wisedomes beautifier:Breather of life, and fastner of desire,Where Beauties blush in Honours graine is dide
Astrophel and Stella: 70
© Sir Philip Sidney
My Muse may well grudge at my heau'nly joy,If still I force her in sad rimes to creepe:She oft hath drunke my teares, now hopes to enjoyNectar of mirth, since I Ioues cup do keepe
Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
© Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the lamp is shatteredThe light in the dust lies dead-- When the cloud is scatteredThe rainbow's glory is shed
Shakespeare's Sonnets: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
© William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Shakespeare's Sonnets: My love is strength'ned, though more weak in seeming
© William Shakespeare
My love is strength'ned, though more weak in seeming;I love not less, though less the show appear
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
© William Shakespeare
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?If the true concord of well-tunèd sounds,By unions married do offend thine ear,They do but sweetly chide thee, who confoundsIn singleness the parts that thou should'st bear:Mark how one string, sweet husband to an other,Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,Who all-in-one one pleasing note do sing Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee, "thou single wilt prove none
Shakespeare's Sonnets: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st
© William Shakespeare
How oft when thou, my music, music play'stUpon that blessèd wood whose motion soundsWith thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'stThe wiry concord that mine ear confounds,Do I envy those jacks that nimble leapTo kiss the tender inward of thy hand,Whil'st my poor lips, which should that harvest reap,At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand
Richard II (excerpts): I have been studying how to compare
© William Shakespeare
I have been studying how to compareThis prison where I live unto the world,And for because the world is populousAnd here is not a creature but myself,I cannot do it - yet I'll hammer it out
The Merchant of Venice (excerpts): How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
© William Shakespeare
Lorenzo: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank; Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears
Christmas Carols (It Came upon the Midnight Clear)
© Edmund Hamilton Sears
It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old,From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold;"Peace on the earth, good will to men From heaven's all-gracious King" --The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing
The Lady of the Lake: Canto 1
© Sir Walter Scott
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking:Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking
