Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find. - Edmund Waller - Quotesmemo.com

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And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

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Edmund Waller

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

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