Stanzas for Music

  1. 1There be none of Beauty's daughters
  2. 2With a magic like thee;
  3. 3And like music on the waters
  4. 4Is thy sweet voice to me:
  5. 5When, as if its sound were causing
  6. 6The charméd Ocean's pausing,
  7. 7The waves lie still and gleaming,
  8. 8And the lulled winds seem dreaming:
  1. 9And the midnight Moon is weaving
  2. 10Her bright chain o'er the deep;
  3. 11Whose breast is gently heaving,
  4. 12As an infant's asleep:
  5. 13So the spirit bows before thee,
  6. 14To listen and adore thee;
  7. 15With a full but soft emotion,
  8. 16Like the swell of Summer's ocean.