Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The English Bijou Almanacks, 1836-1839/Beethoven

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Beethoven.

BEETHOVEN.

A stately and a solemn song,
Such as the evening winds prolong
    In some cathedral aisle,
When holy hope and lofty thought,
From the soul’s deep recesses brought,
    Attend the hymn the while.

There mingle with thy glorious strain
No common fancies light and vain;
    Thy spirit was enshrined—
Thy chords were thoughts—thy notes were given
To all that links this earth with heaven,
    Musician of the mind!