Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stammering lips and insufficient sound Last Line: Before that dread apocalypse of soul. Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole, And utter all myself into the air: But if I did it, -- as the thunder-roll Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there, Before that dread apocalypse of soul. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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