Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBERED MUSIC; A FRAGMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL



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First Line: Thick-rushing, like an ocean vast
Last Line: To listen when the next would be.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


THICK-RUSHING, like an ocean vast
Of bisons the far prairie shaking,
The notes crowd heavily and fast
As surfs, one plunging while the last
Draws seaward from its foamy breaking.

Or in low murmurs they began,
Rising and rising momently,
As o'er a harp AEolian
A fitful breeze, until they ran
Up to a sudden ecstasy.

And then, like minute-drops of rain
Ringing in water silverly,
They lingering dropped and dropped again,
Till it was almost like a pain
To listen when the next would be.





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