Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TUNE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS


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THE TUNE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I played a crazy tune
Last Line: And the same waters flow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


I played a crazy tune
To the river-weeds.
I played it to the moon,
And the sad dark reeds.

And the face that for so long
Has vexed me hour by hour
Like the rhyme of a lost song,
Like the scent of a dead flower,

Drew near me; and the cold
Lethean, lamentable
Lilt of my love-song old,
To give me her lips was able!

But I played a note too high
Or I played a note too low --
And the same moon looks down from the sky
And the same waters flow.





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