Lord Byron (1788-1824). For Music. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

For Music

By Lord Byron (1788–1824)


THERE be none of Beauty’s daughters
With a magic like to 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.