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Friday, March 20, 2015

PIANO - English poem


Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the Small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

- D.H. Lawrence

Glossary: 
1. Vista- a view , range
2. Insidious – spreading  gradually or without being noticed
3. Hymns- songs in praise of God
4. Cosy- comfortable and safe
5. Parlour- a room in a private house for sitting in, for entertaining visitors
6. Clamour –to shout loudly in  confused way
7. Appassionato – a particular piece of music considered by Beethoven to be his most tempestuous piano sonata


8. Glamour – attraction

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