Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A QUARTET ('THE MIKADO' AT CAMBRIDGE), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four singers with a delphic seriousness Last Line: Their union in each swell and dying fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs | ||||||||
FOUR singers with a Delphic seriousness In harmony's kind problem play their part, And I, who see and hear, think they express Nature's best gift, the calm delight of art. The fourfold music takes its twining ways, And like a rich spring underwood embowers Their careful theme, which from the tonal maze Sudden as a nightingale all bright out-flowers When that dark lady bids a madrigal. O sweet content, reward in deed, release Of spirit here in imperfection shut; Symmetry's answer given without a "but"; Deep-moved I mark their choral masterpiece, Their union in each swell and dying fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE APOLLO TRIO by CONRAD AIKEN BAD GIRL SINGING by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 4 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 5 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA by MINA LOY ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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