Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)

For Music

NOW whilst he dreams, O Muses, wind him round!

Send down thy silver words, O murmuring Rain!

Haunt him, sweet Music! Fall, with gentlest sound,—

Like dew, like night, upon his weary brain!

Come, Odours of the rose and violet,—bear

Into his charmed sleep all visions fair!

So may the lost be found,

So may his thoughts by tender Love be crowned,

And Hope come shining like a vernal morn,

And with its beams adorn

The Future, till he breathes diviner air,

In some soft Heaven of joy, beyond the range of Care!