O SONG in the nightingale's throat, O music, Dropt as it fell by a falling star, -- All of the silence is filled with thy pain, Listening till it shall echo again. O song in the nightingale's throat, O music, Thou art the soul of the silence afar! O space of the moon in the starless heaven, Raining a whiteness on moorland and sea, -- Falling as lightly and purely as dew, All of the shadow thou filterest through; O space of the moon in the starless heaven, Surely the night is the shadow of thee! O silence of Death, O world of darkness, When over me the last shadow shall fall, Holdest thou safe in the night all around Any moon to arise, any music to sound? O silence of Death, O world of darkness, Say, shall we feel thee or know thee at all? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE DARKNESS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AELLA: THE MINSTREL'S SONG by THOMAS CHATTERTON FRINGED GENTIANS by AMY LOWELL SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES by SIEGFRIED SASSOON TO THE UNIMPLORED BELOVED by EDWARD SHANKS |