Poetry Passages #40: "Stanzas for Music" by Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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BY REQUEST! In which by the cold, December Atlantic in Asbury Park, NJ, a place that echoes with the music of "The Shore", we hear the rhythmic waves of poetic octaves that is "Stanzas for Music" by Lord Byron, a.k.a. George Gordon (1788-1824). Recited by Clifford Rames.

Stanzas for Music (public domaine)
BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)
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 charmed 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.

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