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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a vale which none hath seen Last Line: Their thoughts conversing with the sky. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Transcendentalism; Lyres | |||
There is a vale which none hath seen, Where foot of man has never been, Such as here lives with toil and strife, An anxious and a sinful life. There every virtue has its birth, Ere it descends upon the earth, And thither every deed returns, Which in the generous bosom burns. There love is warm, and youth is young, And poetry is yet unsung, For Virtue still adventures there, And freely breathes her native air. And ever, if you hearken well, You still may hear its vesper bell, And tread of high-souled men go by, Their thoughts conversing with the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING by GREGORY ORR TO AN AEOLIAN HARP by SARA TEASDALE THE AEOLIAN HARP by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE HARP by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN by HERMAN MELVILLE THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL by MARIANNE MOORE AEOLIAN HARP (1) by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ON HEARING AN AEOLIAN HARP by PETER BAYLEY JR. |
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