parlor-music

Updated: July 25, 2026

Would you believe it? Daily and nightly there come scraps of poetry humming in my intellectual ear some as airy as birdnotes, and some as delicately neat as parlor-music, and a few as grand as organ- peals that seem just such verses as those departed poets would have written had not an inexorable destiny snatched them from their inkstands.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")