Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry
How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Of mighty poets and to hear the while Sweet music, which when the attention fails Fills the dim pause--
Percy Bysshe Shelley
How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Of mighty poets and to hear the while Sweet music, which when the attention fails Fills the dim pause--
Shelley captures a moment of pure contentment: sitting with the works of mighty poets while soft music plays nearby. It’s a simple, intimate pleasure. The speaker savors how the music drifts into awareness especially when his attention wanders from the page—what he calls “the dim pause,” that quiet…
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