Chamber Music

At the river, music seems to have a visitor: Love, pale flowers on his mantle and dark leaves in his hair. Elsewhere, a closed book is forgotten when a voice rises through the gloom.

In Chamber Music, James Joyce gathers thirty-six lyric poems in a world of twilight avenues, moonlit gardens, and May winds moving over the sea. Their speakers listen at gates, call across woods and water, and watch desire turn shy, joyful, pleading, then uncertain. A beloved may be absent; a friend may become a stranger; even the sweetest promise can seem to be fading. Published in 1907, these poems give love a language of music, with each brief song catching a different hour of longing. When the music falls quiet, what will the lover hear?

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