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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN AEOLIAN HARP, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou not hear? Amid dun, lonely Last Line: With ineffectual plaint as from a tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres | |||
DOST thou not hear? Amid dun, lonely hills Far off a melancholy music shrills, As for a joy that no fruition fills. Who live in that far country of the wind? The unclaimed hopes, the powers but half-divined, The shy, heroic passions of mankind. And all are young in those reverberant bands; None marshals them, no mellow voice commands; They whirl and eddy as the shifting sands. There, there is ruin, and no ivy clings; There pass the mourners for untimely things, There breaks the stricken cry of crownless kings. But ever and anon there spreads a boom Of wonder through the air, arraigning doom With ineffectual plaint as from a tomb. | 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 CYCLAMENS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY |
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