Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUSIC, by JAMES RENNELL RODD


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First Line: What angel viol, effortless and sure
Last Line: Dies into rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


What angel viol, effortless and sure,
Speaks through the straining silence, whence, ah whence,
That tremulous low joy, so keen, so pure,
That all existence narrows to one sense,
Lapped round and round
With rapture of sweet sound?
Oh, now it wins the giddy steep, and loud and loud
Over the chasm and the cloud,
Swells its triumphant tide
Higher and higher, and undenied
Insistent to the star! —
Then lowlier, softer, dreamful, droops and dies
Over the closing eyes,
Dies with my spirit away, afar
Swayed on some ocean's breast
Dies into rest.





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