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James Joyce
THE JAMES JOYCE COLLECTION - 5 Books in One Edition
Chamber Music, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles & Ulysses (the original 1922 ed.)
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-3189-8
Table of Contents
A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man
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