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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* + + + + + +Prepared by David Reed haradda@aol.com or davidr@inconnect.com + + + + + +Chamber Music + +by James Joyce + + + +Contents: + +I + +Strings in the earth and air + Make music sweet; + +II + +The twilight turns from amethyst + To deep and deeper blue, + +III + +At that hour when all things have repose, + O lonely watcher of the skies, + +IV + +When the shy star goes forth in heaven + All maidenly, disconsolate, + +V + +Lean out of the window, + Goldenhair, + +VI + +I would in that sweet bosom be + (O sweet it is and fair it is!) + +VII + +My love is in a light attire + Among the apple-trees, + +VIII + +Who goes amid the green wood + With springtide all adorning her? + +IX + +Winds of May, that dance on the sea, + Dancing a ring-around in glee + +X + +Bright cap and streamers, + He sings in the hollow: + +XI + +Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, + Bid adieu to girlish days, + +XII + +What counsel has the hooded moon + Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, + +XIII + +Go seek her out all courteously, + And say I come, + +XIV + +My dove, my beautiful one, + Arise, arise! + +XV + +From dewy dreams, my soul, arise, + From love's deep slumber and from death, + +XVI + +O cool is the valley now + And there, love, will we go + +XVII + +Because your voice was at my side + I gave him pain, + +XVIII + +O Sweetheart, hear you + Your lover's tale; + +XIX + +Be not sad because all men + Prefer a lying clamour before you: + +XX + +In the dark pine-wood + I would we lay, + +XXI + +He who hath glory lost, nor hath + Found any soul to fellow his, + +XXII + +Of that so sweet imprisonment + My soul, dearest, is fain -- - + +XXIII + +This heart that flutters near my heart + My hope and all my riches is, + +XXIV + +Silently she's combing, + Combing her long hair + +XXV + +Lightly come or lightly go: + Though thy heart presage thee woe, + +XXVI + +Thou leanest to the shell of night, + Dear lady, a divining ear. + +XXVII + +Though I thy Mithridates were, + Framed to defy the poison-dart, + +XXVIII + +Gentle lady, do not sing + Sad songs about the end of love; + +XXIX + +Dear heart, why will you use me so? + Dear eyes that gently me upbraid, + +XXX + +Love came to us in time gone by + When one at twilight shyly played + +XXXI + +O, it was out by Donnycarney + When the bat flew from tree to tree + +XXXII + +Rain has fallen all the day. + O come among the laden trees: + +XXXIII + +Now, O now, in this brown land + Where Love did so sweet music make + +XXXIV + +Sleep now, O sleep now, + O you unquiet heart! + +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: + + + + +Chamber Music + +I + +Strings in the earth and air +Make music sweet; +Strings by the river where +The willows meet. + +There's music along the river +For Love wanders there, +Pale flowers on his mantle, +Dark leaves on his hair. + +All softly playing, +With head to the music bent, +And fingers straying +Upon an instrument. + +II + +The twilight turns from amethyst +To deep and deeper blue, +The lamp fills with a pale green glow +The trees of the avenue. + +The old piano plays an air, +Sedate and slow and gay; +She bends upon the yellow keys, +Her head inclines this way. + +Shy thought and grave wide eyes and hands +That wander as they list -- - +The twilight turns to darker blue +With lights of amethyst. + +III + +At that hour when all things have repose, +O lonely watcher of the skies, +Do you hear the night wind and the sighs +Of harps playing unto Love to unclose +The pale gates of sunrise? + +When all things repose, do you alone +Awake to hear the sweet harps play +To Love before him on his way, +And the night wind answering in antiphon +Till night is overgone? + +Play on, invisible harps, unto Love, +Whose way in heaven is aglow +At that hour when soft lights come and go, +Soft sweet music in the air above +And in the earth below. + +IV + +When the shy star goes forth in heaven +All maidenly, disconsolate, +Hear you amid the drowsy even +One who is singing by your gate. +His song is softer than the dew +And he is come to visit you. + +O bend no more in revery +When he at eventide is calling. +Nor muse: Who may this singer be +Whose song about my heart is falling? +Know you by this, the lover's chant, +'Tis I that am your visitant. + +V + +Lean out of the window, +Goldenhair, +I hear you singing +A merry air. + +My book was closed, +I read no more, +Watching the fire dance +On the floor. + +I have left my book, +I have left my room, +For I heard you singing +Through the gloom. + +Singing and singing +A merry air, +Lean out of the window, +Goldenhair. + +VI + +I would in that sweet bosom be +(O sweet it is and fair it is!) +Where no rude wind might visit me. +Because of sad austerities +I would in that sweet bosom be. + +I would be ever in that heart +(O soft I knock and soft entreat her!) +Where only peace might be my part. +Austerities were all the sweeter +So I were ever in that heart. + +VII + +My love is in a light attire +Among the apple-trees, +Where the gay winds do most desire +To run in companies. + +There, where the gay winds stay to woo +The young leaves as they pass, +My love goes slowly, bending to +Her shadow on the grass; + +And where the sky's a pale blue cup +Over the laughing land, +My love goes lightly, holding up +Her dress with dainty hand. + +VIII + +Who goes amid the green wood +With springtide all adorning her? +Who goes amid the merry green wood +To make it merrier? + +Who passes in the sunlight +By ways that know the light footfall? +Who passes in the sweet sunlight +With mien so virginal? + +The ways of all the woodland +Gleam with a soft and golden fire -- - +For whom does all the sunny woodland +Carry so brave attire? + +O, it is for my true love +The woods their rich apparel wear -- - +O, it is for my own true love, +That is so young and fair. + +IX + +Winds of May, that dance on the sea, +Dancing a ring-around in glee +From furrow to furrow, while overhead +The foam flies up to be garlanded, +In silvery arches spanning the air, +Saw you my true love anywhere? +Welladay! Welladay! +For the winds of May! +Love is unhappy when love is away! + +X + +Bright cap and streamers, +He sings in the hollow: +Come follow, come follow, + All you that love. +Leave dreams to the dreamers +That will not after, +That song and laughter + Do nothing move. + +With ribbons streaming +He sings the bolder; +In troop at his shoulder + The wild bees hum. +And the time of dreaming +Dreams is over -- - +As lover to lover, + Sweetheart, I come. + +XI + +Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, +Bid adieu to girlish days, +Happy Love is come to woo +Thee and woo thy girlish ways -- - +The zone that doth become thee fair, +The snood upon thy yellow hair, + +When thou hast heard his name upon +The bugles of the cherubim +Begin thou softly to unzone +Thy girlish bosom unto him +And softly to undo the snood +That is the sign of maidenhood. + +XII + +What counsel has the hooded moon +Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, +Of Love in ancient plenilune, +Glory and stars beneath his feet -- - +A sage that is but kith and kin +With the comedian Capuchin? + +Believe me rather that am wise +In disregard of the divine, +A glory kindles in those eyes +Trembles to starlight. Mine, O Mine! +No more be tears in moon or mist +For thee, sweet sentimentalist. + +XIII + +Go seek her out all courteously, +And say I come, +Wind of spices whose song is ever +Epithalamium. +O, hurry over the dark lands +And run upon the sea +For seas and lands shall not divide us +My love and me. + +Now, wind, of your good courtesy +I pray you go, +And come into her little garden +And sing at her window; +Singing: The bridal wind is blowing +For Love is at his noon; +And soon will your true love be with you, +Soon, O soon. + +XIV + +My dove, my beautiful one, +Arise, arise! +The night-dew lies +Upon my lips and eyes. + +The odorous winds are weaving +A music of sighs: +Arise, arise, +My dove, my beautiful one! + +I wait by the cedar tree, +My sister, my love, +White breast of the dove, +My breast shall be your bed. + +The pale dew lies +Like a veil on my head. +My fair one, my fair dove, +Arise, arise! + +XV + +From dewy dreams, my soul, arise, +From love's deep slumber and from death, +For lo! the treees are full of sighs +Whose leaves the morn admonisheth. + +Eastward the gradual dawn prevails +Where softly-burning fires appear, +Making to tremble all those veils +Of grey and golden gossamer. + +While sweetly, gently, secretly, +The flowery bells of morn are stirred +And the wise choirs of faery +Begin (innumerous!) to be heard. + +XVI + +O cool is the valley now +And there, love, will we go +For many a choir is singing now +Where Love did sometime go. +And hear you not the thrushes calling, +Calling us away? +O cool and pleasant is the valley +And there, love, will we stay. + +XVII + +Because your voice was at my side +I gave him pain, +Because within my hand I held +Your hand again. + +There is no word nor any sign +Can make amend -- - +He is a stranger to me now +Who was my friend. + +XVIII + +O Sweetheart, hear you +Your lover's tale; +A man shall have sorrow +When friends him fail. + +For he shall know then +Friends be untrue +And a little ashes +Their words come to. + +But one unto him +Will softly move +And softly woo him +In ways of love. + +His hand is under +Her smooth round breast; +So he who has sorrow +Shall have rest. + +XIX + +Be not sad because all men +Prefer a lying clamour before you: +Sweetheart, be at peace again -- - +Can they dishonour you? + +They are sadder than all tears; +Their lives ascend as a continual sigh. +Proudly answer to their tears: +As they deny, deny. + +XX + +In the dark pine-wood +I would we lay, +In deep cool shadow +At noon of day. + +How sweet to lie there, +Sweet to kiss, +Where the great pine-forest +Enaisled is! + +Thy kiss descending +Sweeter were +With a soft tumult +Of thy hair. + +O unto the pine-wood +At noon of day +Come with me now, +Sweet love, away. + +XXI + +He who hath glory lost, nor hath +Found any soul to fellow his, +Among his foes in scorn and wrath +Holding to ancient nobleness, +That high unconsortable one -- - +His love is his companion. + +XXII + +Of that so sweet imprisonment +My soul, dearest, is fain -- - +Soft arms that woo me to relent +And woo me to detain. +Ah, could they ever hold me there +Gladly were I a prisoner! + +Dearest, through interwoven arms +By love made tremulous, +That night allures me where alarms +Nowise may trouble us; +But lseep to dreamier sleep be wed +Where soul with soul lies prisoned. + +XXIII + +This heart that flutters near my heart +My hope and all my riches is, +Unhappy when we draw apart +And happy between kiss and kiss: +My hope and all my riches -- - yes! -- - +And all my happiness. + +For there, as in some mossy nest +The wrens will divers treasures keep, +I laid those treasures I possessed +Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep. +Shall we not be as wise as they +Though love live but a day? + +XXIV + +Silently she's combing, +Combing her long hair +Silently and graciously, +With many a pretty air. + +The sun is in the willow leaves +And on the dapplled grass, +And still she's combing her long hair +Before the looking-glass. + +I pray you, cease to comb out, +Comb out your long hair, +For I have heard of witchery +Under a pretty air, + +That makes as one thing to the lover +Staying and going hence, +All fair, with many a pretty air +And many a negligence. + +XXV + +Lightly come or lightly go: +Though thy heart presage thee woe, +Vales and many a wasted sun, +Oread let thy laughter run, +Till the irreverent mountain air +Ripple all thy flying hair. + +Lightly, lightly -- - ever so: +Clouds that wrap the vales below +At the hour of evenstar +Lowliest attendants are; +Love and laughter song-confessed +When the heart is heaviest. + +XXVI + +Thou leanest to the shell of night, +Dear lady, a divining ear. +In that soft choiring of delight +What sound hath made thy heart to fear? +Seemed it of rivers rushing forth +From the grey deserts of the north? + +That mood of thine +Is his, if thou but scan it well, +Who a mad tale bequeaths to us +At ghosting hour conjurable -- - +And all for some strange name he read + In Purchas or in Holinshed. + +XXVII + +Though I thy Mithridates were, +Framed to defy the poison-dart, +Yet must thou fold me unaware +To know the rapture of thy heart, +And I but render and confess +The malice of thy tenderness. + +For elegant and antique phrase, +Dearest, my lips wax all too wise; +Nor have I known a love whose praise +Our piping poets solemnize, +Neither a love where may not be +Ever so little falsity. + +XXVIII + +Gentle lady, do not sing +Sad songs about the end of love; +Lay aside sadness and sing +How love that passes is enough. + +Sing about the long deep sleep +Of lovers that are dead, and how +In the grave all love shall sleep: +Love is aweary now. + +XXIX + +Dear heart, why will you use me so? +Dear eyes that gently me upbraid, +Still are you beautiful -- - but O, +How is your beauty raimented! + +Through the clear mirror of your eyes, +Through the soft sigh of kiss to kiss, +Desolate winds assail with cries +The shadowy garden where love is. + +And soon shall love dissolved be +When over us the wild winds blow -- - +But you, dear love, too dear to me, +Alas! why will you use me so? + +XXX + +Love came to us in time gone by +When one at twilight shyly played +And one in fear was standing nigh -- - +For Love at first is all afraid. + +We were grave lovers. Love is past +That had his sweet hours many a one; +Welcome to us now at the last +The ways that we shall go upon. + +XXXI + +O, it was out by Donnycarney +When the bat flew from tree to tree +My love and I did walk together; +And sweet were the words she said to me. + +Along with us the summer wind +Went murmuring -- - O, happily! -- - +But softer than the breath of summer +Was the kiss she gave to me. + +XXXII + +Rain has fallen all the day. +O come among the laden trees: +The leaves lie thick upon the way +Of memories. + +Staying a little by the way +Of memories shall we depart. +Come, my beloved, where I may +Speak to your heart. + +XXXIII + +Now, O now, in this brown land +Where Love did so sweet music make +We two shall wander, hand in hand, +Forbearing for old friendship' sake, +Nor grieve because our love was gay +Which now is ended in this way. + +A rogue in red and yellow dress +Is knocking, knocking at the tree; +And all around our loneliness +The wind is whistling merrily. +The leaves -- - they do not sigh at all +When the year takes them in the fall. + +Now, O now, we hear no more +The vilanelle and roundelay! +Yet will we kiss, sweetheart, before +We take sad leave at close of day. +Grieve not, sweetheart, for anything -- - +The year, the year is gathering. + +XXXIV + +Sleep now, O sleep now, +O you unquiet heart! +A voice crying "Sleep now" +Is heard in my heart. + +The voice of the winter +Is heard at the door. +O sleep, for the winter +Is crying "Sleep no more." + +My kiss will give peace now +And quiet to your heart -- - +Sleep on in peace now, +O you unquiet heart! + +XXXV + +All day I hear the noise of waters +Making moan, +Sad as the sea-bird is when, going +Forth alone, +He hears the winds cry to the water's +Monotone. +The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing +Where I go. +I hear the noise of many waters +Far below. +All day, all night, I hear them flowing +To and fro. + +XXXVI + +I hear an army charging upon the land, +And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: +Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, +Disdaining the reins, with fluttering ships, the charioteers. +They cry unto the night their battle-name: +I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter. +They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame, +Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil. +They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair: +They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore. +My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? +My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? + + + + + +End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Chamber Music, by James Joyce + + |