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    Chamber Music
    Chamber Music
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    Chamber Music

    By James Joyce

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    A collection of Love Poems

    “Welladay! Welladay!/For the winds of May!/Love is unhappy when love is away!” - James Joyce, Chamber Music

    The title of the book, “Chamber Music”, was reportedly a pun relating to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, though this seems to be a later embellishment by Joyce of the title’s meaning.
    This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXist Publishing
    Release dateMar 17, 2016
    ISBN9781681956404
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    James Joyce

    James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He came from a reasonably wealthy family which, predominantly because of the recklessness of Joyce's father John, was soon plunged into financial hardship. The young Joyce attended Clongowes College, Belvedere College and, eventually, University College, Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, and eloped with her to Croatia. From this point until the end of his life, Joyce lived as an exile, moving from Trieste to Rome, and then to Zurich and Paris. His major works are Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941, by which time he had come to be regarded as one of the greatest novelists the world ever produced.

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      Chamber Music - James Joyce

      Questions

      CHAMBER MUSIC I

      Strings in the earth and air

          Make music sweet;

          Strings by the river where

          The willows meet.

          There's music along the river

          For Love wanders there,

          Pale flowers on his mantle,

          Dark leaves on his hair.

          All softly playing,

          With head to the music bent,

          And fingers straying

          Upon an instrument.

      II

      The twilight turns from amethyst

          To deep and deeper blue,

          The lamp fills with a pale green glow

          The trees of the avenue.

          The old piano plays an air,

          Sedate and slow and gay;

          She bends upon the yellow keys,

          Her head inclines this way.

          Shy thought and grave wide eyes and hands

          That wander as they list—

          The twilight turns to darker blue

          With lights of amethyst.

      III

      At that hour when all things have repose,

          O lonely watcher of the skies,

          Do you hear the night wind and the sighs

          Of harps playing unto Love to unclose

          The pale gates of sunrise?

          When all things repose, do you alone

          Awake to hear the sweet harps play

          To Love before him on his way,

          And the night wind answering in antiphon

          Till night is overgone?

          Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,

          Whose way in heaven is aglow

          At that hour when soft lights come and go,

          Soft sweet music in the air above

          And in the earth below.

      IV

      When the shy star goes forth in heaven

          All maidenly, disconsolate,

          Hear you amid the drowsy even

          One who is singing by your gate.

          His song is softer than the dew

          And he is come to visit you.

          O bend no more in revery

          When he at eventide is calling.

          Nor muse: Who may this singer be

          Whose song about my heart is falling?

          Know you by this, the lover's chant,

      'Tis I that am your visitant.

      V

      Lean out of the window,

      Goldenhair,

         

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