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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON HEARING AN AEOLIAN HARP, by PETER BAYLEY JR. First Line: Sure 'tis the voice of choired saints that flow Last Line: As the blest relic of a happy day. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres | |||
Sure 'tis the voice of choired saints that flows Along the billows of the softened breeze ... And now, in falls and dying symphonies, So sweet it glides, that forth my rapt soul goes To join those hymnings, ta'en from all her woes. Yet once more, and once more, ye minstrelsies Of power, my stormy spirit to appease, With some dissolving dream my thoughts compose. ... Again your strains float, sinking on the wind, Soft, wild, and mournful all; now melt away, Faintly perceived, like some expiring ray Of memory that trembles o'er the mind, Lovely in its departure, still enshrined As the blest relic of a happy day. | 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 RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP by HENRY DAVID THOREAU AEOLIAN HARP (1) by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |
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