Chamber Music

Contents With First Lines

I

I Strings in the earth and air
Make music sweet;

II

II
The twilight turns from amethyst
To deep and deeper blue,

III

III
At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,

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IV
When the shy star goes forth in heaven
All maidenly, disconsolate,
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair,

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VI
I would in that sweet bosom be
(O sweet it is and fair it is!)

VII

VII
My love is in a light attire
Among the apple-trees,

VIII

VIII
Who goes amid the green wood
With springtide all adorning her?

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IX
Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
Dancing a ring-around in glee
Bright cap and streamers,
He sings in the hollow:

XI

XI
Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,

XII

XII
What counsel has the hooded moon
Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet,

XIII

XIII
Go seek her out all courteously,
And say I come,

XIV

XIV
My dove, my beautiful one,
Arise, arise!

XV

XV
From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
From love's deep slumber and from death,

XVI

XVI
O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go

XVII

XVII
Because your voice was at my side
I gave him pain,

XVIII

XVIII
O Sweetheart, hear you
Your lover's tale;

XIX

XIX
Be not sad because all men
Prefer a lying clamour before you:

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XX
In the dark pine-wood
I would we lay,

XXI

XXI
He who hath glory lost, nor hath
Found any soul to fellow his,

XXII

XXII
Of that so sweet imprisonment
My soul, dearest, is fain—

XXIII

XXIII
This heart that flutters near my heart
My hope and all my riches is,

XXIV

XXIV
Silently she's combing,
Combing her long hair

XXV

XXV
Lightly come or lightly go:
Though thy heart presage thee woe,

XXVI

XXVI
Thou leanest to the shell of night,
Dear lady, a divining ear.

XXVII

XXVII
Though I thy Mithridates were,
Framed to defy the poison-dart,

XXVIII

XXVIII
Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;

XXIX

XXIX
Dear heart, why will you use me so?
Dear eyes that gently me upbraid,

XXX

XXX
Love came to us in time gone by
When one at twilight shyly played

XXXI

XXXI
O, it was out by Donnycarney
When the bat flew from tree to tree

XXXII

XXXII
Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:

XXXIII

XXXIII
Now, O now, in this brown land
Where Love did so sweet music make

XXXIV

XXXIV
Sleep now, O sleep now,
O you unquiet heart!

XXXV

XXXV
All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,

XXXVI

I hear an army charging upon the land,
And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: