# Poetry — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Poetry by James Joyce.

- [Chamber Music](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/chamber-music.md): A lyrical exploration of love, longing, and the transient beauty of romantic encounters, set against a backdrop of nature and mood.
- [I: Strings in the Earth and Air](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/i-strings-in-the-earth-and-air.md): The chapter opens with a lyrical description of music arising from nature—strings in the earth and air, and by the river where willows meet. Love is personified as a wandering figure, adorned with pale flowers and dark l
- [II: The Twilight Turns from Amethyst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/ii-the-twilight-turns-from-amethyst.md): The chapter depicts the transition of twilight from amethyst to deeper blue, as a lamp glows pale green and an old piano plays a sedate, slow, and gay air. A woman bends over the yellow keys, her head inclining, with shy
- [At That Hour When All Things Have Repose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/iii-at-that-hour-when-all-things-have-repose.md): The narrator addresses a lonely watcher of the skies, asking if they hear the night wind and harps playing to Love at the hour of repose. The harps play to open the pale gates of sunrise, and the night wind answers in an
- [IV: When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/iv-when-the-shy-star-goes-forth-in-heaven.md): The narrator describes a shy star appearing in heaven and a lover singing at the beloved's gate in the evening, urging her not to muse in revery but to recognize him as her visitant through his song.

> 47 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=poetry_11_se_629kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [V: Lean Out of the Window](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/v-lean-out-of-the-window.md)
- [VI: I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/vi-i-would-in-that-sweet-bosom-be.md)
- [VII: My Love Is in a Light Attire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/vii-my-love-is-in-a-light-attire.md)
- [Who Goes Amid the Green Wood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/viii-who-goes-amid-the-green-wood.md)
- [IX: Winds of May, That Dance on the Sea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/ix-winds-of-may-that-dance-on-the-sea.md)
- [X: Bright Cap and Streamers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/x-bright-cap-and-streamers.md)
- [XI: Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xi-bid-adieu-adieu-adieu.md)
- [XII: What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xii-what-counsel-has-the-hooded-moon.md)
- [XIII: Go Seek Her Out All Courteously](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xiii-go-seek-her-out-all-courteously.md)
- [XIV: My Dove, My Beautiful One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xiv-my-dove-my-beautiful-one.md)
- [XV: From Dewy Dreams, My Soul, Arise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xv-from-dewy-dreams-my-soul-arise.md)
- [XVI: O Cool Is the Valley Now](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xvi-o-cool-is-the-valley-now.md)
- [XVII: Because Your Voice Was at My Side](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xvii-because-your-voice-was-at-my-side.md)
- [XVIII: O Sweetheart, Hear You](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xviii-o-sweetheart-hear-you.md)
- [XIX: Be Not Sad Because All Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xix-be-not-sad-because-all-men.md)
- [XX: In the Dark Pine-Wood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xx-in-the-dark-pine-wood.md)
- [He Who Hath Glory Lost, nor Hath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxi-he-who-hath-glory-lost-nor-hath.md)
- [XXII: Of That So Sweet Imprisonment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxii-of-that-so-sweet-imprisonment.md)
- [XXIII: This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxiii-this-heart-that-flutters-near-my-heart.md)
- [XXIV: Silently She’s Combing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxiv-silently-she-s-combing.md)
- [XXV: Lightly Come or Lightly Go](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxv-lightly-come-or-lightly-go.md)
- [XXVI: Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxvi-thou-leanest-to-the-shell-of-night.md)
- [XXVII: Though I Thy Mithridates Were](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxvii-though-i-thy-mithridates-were.md)
- [XXVIII: Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxviii-gentle-lady-do-not-sing.md)
- [XXIX: Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxix-dear-heart-why-will-you-use-me-so.md)
- [XXX: Love Came to Us in Time Gone By](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxx-love-came-to-us-in-time-gone-by.md)
- [XXXI: O, It Was Out by Donnycarney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxxi-o-it-was-out-by-donnycarney.md)
- [XXXII: Rain Has Fallen All the Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxxii-rain-has-fallen-all-the-day.md)
- [XXXIII: Now, O Now, in This Brown Land](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxxiii-now-o-now-in-this-brown-land.md)
- [Sleep Now, O Sleep Now](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxxiv-sleep-now-o-sleep-now.md)
- [All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxxv-all-day-i-hear-the-noise-of-waters.md)
- [XXXVI: I Hear an Army Charging Upon the Land](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/xxxvi-i-hear-an-army-charging-upon-the-land.md)
- [Gas from a Burner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/gas-from-a-burner.md)
- [Pomes Penyeach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/pomes-penyeach.md)
- [Tilly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/tilly.md)
- [Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/watching-the-needleboats-at-san-sabba.md)
- [A Flower Given to My Daughter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/a-flower-given-to-my-daughter.md)
- [She Weeps Over Rahoon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/she-weeps-over-rahoon.md)
- [Tutto è Sciolto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/tutto-sciolto.md)
- [On the Beach at Fontana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/on-the-beach-at-fontana.md)
- [Simples](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/simples.md)
- [Flood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/flood.md)
- [Nightpiece](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/nightpiece.md)
- [Alone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/alone.md)
- [A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/a-memory-of-the-players-in-a-mirror-at-midnight.md)
- [Bahnhofstrasse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/bahnhofstrasse.md)
- [A Prayer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_11_se/chapters/a-prayer.md)

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