Librivox: Chamber Music by Joyce, James
Summary: Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). Although the poems did not sell well, they received some critical acclaim. Ezra Pound admired the "delicate temperament" of these early poems, while Yeats described "I hear an army charging upon the land" as "a technical and emotional masterpiece". In 1909, Joyce wrote to his wife, "When I wrote [Chamber Music], I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me." Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman
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01 "Strings in the earth and air"; "At that hour when all things have repose,"; "When the shy star goes forth in heaven"; "Twilight turns from amethyst, The"; "Lean out of the window,"; "I would in that sweet bosom be"; "My love is in a light attire"; "Who goes amid the green wood"; "Winds of May, that dance on the sea,"; "Bright cap and streamers,"; "Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,"; "What counsel has the hooded moon"; "Go seek her out all courteously,"; "My dove, my beautiful one,"; "From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,"; "O cool is the valley now"; "Because your voice was at my side"; "O Sweetheart, hear you"; "Be not sad because all men"; "In the dark pine-wood"; "He who hath glory lost, nor hath"; "Of that so sweet imprisonment"; "This heart that flutters near my heart"; "Silently she's combing,"; "Lightly come or lightly go:"; "Thou leanest to the shell of night,"; "Though I thy Mithridates were,"; "Gentle lady, do not sing"; "Dear heart, why will you use me so?"; "Love came to us in time gone by"; "O, it was out by Donnycarney"; "Rain has fallen all the day."; "Now, O now, in this brown land"; "Sleep now, O sleep now,"; "All day I hear the noise of waters"; "I hear an army charging upon the land,"
