Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy: 15 citations0 J'aime
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy: Citations en anglais
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: A breath of our inspiration
Is the life of each generation;
A wondrous thing of our dreaming
Unearthly, impossible seeming —
The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: But we, with our dreaming and singing,
Ceaseless and sorrowless we!
The glory about us clinging
Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing:
O men! it must ever be
That we dwell, in our dreaming and singing,
A little apart from ye.
We are afar with the dawning
And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning
Intrepid you hear us cry —
How, spite of your human scorning,
Once more God's future draws nigh,
And already goes forth the warning
That ye of the past must die.
“For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.”
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
“With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities”
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
“Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,”
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: Great hail! we cry to the comers
From the dazzling unknown shore;
Bring us hither your sun and your summers;
And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song's new numbers,
And things that we dreamed not before:
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.
“A breath of our inspiration
Is the life of each generation”
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Contexte: A breath of our inspiration
Is the life of each generation;
A wondrous thing of our dreaming
Unearthly, impossible seeming —
The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Music and Moonlight (1874), Barcarolle
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Music and Moonlight (1874), Barcarolle
