Queen of every moving measure,
Sweetest source of purest pleasure,
Music; why thy powers employ
Only for the sons of joy?
Only for the smiling guests
At natal or at nuptial feasts?
Rather thy lenient numbers pour
On those whom secret griefs devour;
Bid be still the throbbing hearts
Of those, whom death, or absence parts,
And, with some softly whisper'd air,
Smooth the brow of dumb despair.
Ode To Music
Joseph Warton
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Poem topics: death, despair, joy, music, pleasure, source, whisper, queen, secret, absence, measure, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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