Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly, Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering, Resembling sire and child and happy mother Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DANNY DEEVER by RUDYARD KIPLING A LONDON PLANE-TREE by AMY LEVY LOVE'S RESURRECTION DAY by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON THE WIRES by ALEXANDER ANDERSON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 19. AL-FATTA'H by EDWIN ARNOLD GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 8 by RICHARD BARNFIELD HYMNE (TO BE SUNG WITH THREE VOICES) by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |