sighed and looked
sighed and looked, looked
and sighed again
Adapted from the poem, Alexander’s Feast by John Dryden (1697) and the lines that read:
The prince, unable to conceal his pain,
Gazed on the fair,
Who caused his care,
And sighed and looked, sighed and looked,
Sighed and looked, and sighed again;
At length, with love and wine at once oppressed,
The vanquished victor sunk upon her breast.
It was written, according to Wikipedida, to celebrate Saint Cecilia’s Day.
Jeremiah Clarke of Trumpet Volunteer fame, set the original ode to music, but the score is now lost.
The main body of the poem describes the feast given by Alexander the Great at the Persian capital Persepolis, after his defeat of Darius.
There is much here but my daily struggle embraces:
And sighed and looked, sighed and looked,
Sighed and looked, and sighed again …
Sigh.
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