Versos English A. Cleveland Coxe To a Lady, XXIII

English poem

To a Lady, XXIII

by (1818–1896)

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It was a wind-harp’s magic strong, Mov’d by the breeze in dreamy song; But I was gone too far to know What stirr’d my troubled spirit so, And in my fancy, came a flood Of visions, strange to flesh and blood, And nameless shapes that hover’d round; Such was the wizard power of sound!