| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | VI. “Spirit of all sweet sounds!” | | By Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) |
| | | SPIRIT of all sweet sounds! who in mid-air | |
| Sittest enthroned, vouchsafe to hear my prayer! | |
| Let all those instruments of music sweet | |
| That in great Nature’s hymn bear burden meet | |
| Sing round this mossy pillow, where my head | 5 |
| From the bright noontide sky is shelteréd. | |
| Thou southern wind! wave, wave thy od’rous wings; | |
| O’er your smooth channels gush, ye crystal springs! | |
| Ye laughing elves! that through the rustling corn | |
| Run chattering; thou tawny-coated bee, | 10 |
| Who at thy honey-work sing’st drowsily; | |
| And ye, O ye! who greet the dewy morn, | |
| And fragrant eventide, with melody, | |
| Ye wild wood-minstrels, sing my lullaby! | | | | |
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