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 [charmèd]1 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.
Three songs , opus 16
by Ann Sheppard Mounsey (1811 - 1891)
There be none of Beauty's daughters
Language: English
Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Stanzas for music", appears in Poems, first published 1816 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Set by by Ann Sheppard Mounsey (1811 - 1891), op. 16, published 1840? [ medium voice and piano duet ]View original text (without footnotes)
1 Mendelssohn: "charm'd"
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