Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PLUS INTRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE


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First Line: Soul within sense, immeasurable obscure
Last Line: Soul within sense.
Subject(s): Roundels; Sensibility; Soul


SOUL within sense, immeasurable obscure,
Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense
Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure
Soul within sense.

From depth and height by measurers left immense,
Thro' sound and shape and color, comes the unsure
Vague utterance, fitful with supreme suspense.

All that may pass, and all that must endure,
Song speaks not, painting shows not: more intense
And keen than these, art wakes with music's lure
Soul within sense.





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