I am in need of music
23 March 2023 22:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
landofnowhereI was searching for something else, and ran across this sonnet by a 17-year-old Elizabeth Bishop, which is really *good* angsty teenage poetry!
I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling fingertips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!
There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep
To the subaqueous stillness of the sea,
And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.
She's still developing her voice -- it reads like it could be by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and also the second stanza is clearly referencing Endymion, but it is a very BIG MOOD poem.
I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling fingertips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!
There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep
To the subaqueous stillness of the sea,
And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.
She's still developing her voice -- it reads like it could be by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and also the second stanza is clearly referencing Endymion, but it is a very BIG MOOD poem.
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Date: 24 Mar 2023 04:58 (UTC)God, she was so good. Thanks for this! I'd never read it.
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Date: 24 Mar 2023 13:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Apr 2023 06:05 (UTC)