Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. 17881824598. For Music
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 | 5 |
The charmèd 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; | 10 |
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, | 15 |
Like the swell of Summer’s ocean. |