Lyric Poem · Love
Music
1I pant for the music which is divine,
2My heart in its thirst is a dying flower;
3Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine,
4Loosen the notes in a silver shower;
5Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain,
6I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
7Let me drink of the spirit of that sweet sound,
8More, oh more, — I am thirsting yet;
9It loosens the serpent which care has bound
10Upon my heart to stifle it;
11The dissolving strain, through every vein,
12Passes into my heart and brain.
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“Music” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/music
Quick facts
- Poem
- Music
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 22 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Love, Death & Loss, Nature
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 22 lines · 4 stanzas of 4–6 lines
- Line length
- Lines run 8-11 syllables (median 10), consistent with pentameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBMusic by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 7caca3ea56a990c2…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.