Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ORDER FOR A SONG, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO


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ORDER FOR A SONG, by                    
First Line: Out of the fullness of your warm heart
Last Line: And softly melt into heaven's hymn.
Subject(s): Hope; Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Music & Musicians; Optimism


Out of the fullness of your warm heart,
Write me a song, all sad and low,
Like the sweet, jarred notes of a broken harp;
And wing each word with a wail of woe.
Let every echo be dim and drear,
Let each sad accent a sigh express;
Let the trembling glitter of hope's last tear
Its pale ray cast on my wild distress.

Out of the depths of your throbbing heart,
A thousand of songs are slumbering there,
Write me but one, thou sweet child of art,
The song of a hope in its last despair;
Make it so beautiful sad and low.
Each note shall be sobbing, as tone by tone,
It steals through all hearts like a chant of woe;
Soft as a snowflake but wild as a moan.

Out of the darkness flash me a song,
All brightly dark and all darkly bright;
Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along
The shadowy distance of the night;
Make it sadly and simply sweet,
But take out the notes that are drear and dim,
And let it roll to my Maker's feet,
And softly melt into heaven's hymn.





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