Chamber Music
By James Joyce
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Goldenhair,
I hear you singing
A merry air.
My book was closed,
I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
On the floor.
I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.
Singing and singing
A merry air,
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair.
James Joyce
James Joyce (1882–1941) is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century. After graduating from University College Dublin, Joyce went to Paris. During World War One, Joyce and Barnacle, and their two children, Giorgio and Lucia, moved to Zurich where Joyce began Ulysses. He returned to Paris for two decades, and his reputation as an avant-garde writer grew. Joyce’s works include the short story collection Dubliners (1914); novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939); two poetry collections Chamber Music (1907) and Pomes Penyeach (1927); and one play, Exiles (1918). Every year on 16 June, Joyceans across the globe celebrate Bloomsday, the day on which the action of Ulysses took place, proving Joyce’s importance to literature.
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Chamber Music - James Joyce
MUSIC
Contents With First Lines
I
I Strings in the earth and air
Make music sweet;
II
II
The twilight turns from amethyst
To deep and deeper blue,
III
III
At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
IV
IV
When the shy star goes forth in heaven
All maidenly, disconsolate,
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair,
VI
VI
I would in that sweet bosom be
(O sweet it is and fair it is!)
VII
VII
My love is in a light attire
Among the apple-trees,
VIII
VIII
Who goes amid the green wood
With springtide all adorning her?
IX
IX
Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
Dancing a ring-around in glee
Bright cap and streamers,
He sings in the hollow:
XI
XI
Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,
XII
XII
What counsel has the hooded moon
Put in thy heart, my