Adrienne Rich - At a Bach Concert lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - At a Bach Concert lyrics]
Coming by evening through the wintry city
We said that art is out of love with life
Here we approach a love that is not pity
This antique's discipline, tenderly severe
Renews belief in love yet masters feeling
Asking of us a grace in what we bear
Form is the ultimate gift
That love can offer-
The vital union of necessity
With all that we desire, all that we suffer
A too-compassionate art is half an art
Only such proud restraining purity
Restores the else-betrayed, too human heart
We said that art is out of love with life
Here we approach a love that is not pity
This antique's discipline, tenderly severe
Renews belief in love yet masters feeling
Asking of us a grace in what we bear
Form is the ultimate gift
That love can offer-
The vital union of necessity
With all that we desire, all that we suffer
A too-compassionate art is half an art
Only such proud restraining purity
Restores the else-betrayed, too human heart
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