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The Music by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley

January 14th, 2011 Comments(0)

I snagged this from Sonnet Central.

The Music
By Emmeline Stuart-Wortley

There is a music in my mind tonight
A visitation of sweet thoughts, and rare!
I know not whence, but feel them springing there,
Aëry and delicate, as wind or light.
That music in my mind of magic might,
This light cast down, on every thought, so fair,
This stirring sweetness, like to moving air,
Can this be love?—the immortal and the bright!

It is surely love! for nought beside can be
So strange and yet so sweet, so soft yet strong.
It is love, the crown of all, crowned mystery!
My thoughts are gathering to a starry throng,
And scattering forth their brightness far and free;
Yet love, that sun, shines dazzling these among!

Past and Future by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley

July 26th, 2007 Comments(0)

I’m still in a sonnet mood. Thank heavens for Sonnet Central!

Past and Future
By Emmeline Stuart-Wortley

I cannot rule my thoughts that round one theme
Hang, like to swarming bees, till all grow one!
And yet that theme I fain would learn to shun.
It is my life’s too fair but fatal dream.
Too dangerous do its deep enchantments seem,
But dearer than my soul—undone! undone!
I cannot rule my thoughts; each rising sun
Sees me still drifting farther down the stream.

O fearful stream of passion! wave by wave
Dost thou engulf my being; must it be?
Is there no power to strengthen or to save?
No tokens of a change these eyes can see:
Days past and days to come one likeness have.
I know my future so, it seems a memory!

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