Best Pianoforte Poems

Tenderly the ivory keys call to me.
Their vibrating octaves like different voices
soft and hypnotic, drawing from me 
the deepest yearning of my heart overtaking
my senses....helpless against its intoxicating
melody. Sweetly the notes swell,  filling me, 
lifting my spirit from its solitary place. With
 each push...

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I built a house for Harmony
with twine and polished tree,
with bricks of black and ivory:
four score and five plus three.

The hammered home I made for her
had ne'er been built before:
its roof revealed the inner walls,
and silver lined its floor.

Her other homes were much too small:
I...

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