Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PERSISTENT MUSIC, by MARTIN LUTHER


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PERSISTENT MUSIC, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! What am I, my heart, that I should dare
Last Line: May know its silence sadder than its song.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


Lo! what am I, my heart, that I should dare
To love her who will never love again:
I, standing out here in the wind and rain,
With feet unsandalled, and uncovered hair,
Singing sad words to a still sadder air,
Who know not even if my song's refrain —
"Of sorrow, sorrow! loved, oh, loved in vain!" —
May reach her where she sits and hath no care.
But I will sing in every man's despite;
Yea, too, and love, and sing of love until
My music mixes with her dreams at night;
That when Death says to me, "Lie down, be still!"
She, pausing for my voice, and listening long,
May know its silence sadder than its song.





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