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THE FOUNDER OF THE FEAST, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet's Biography First Line: Enter my palace,' if a prince should say Last Line: By halle, schumann, piatti, joachim. Subject(s): Music & Musicians | ||||||||
"ENTER my palace," if a prince should say -- "Feast with the Painters! See, in bounteous row, They range from Titian up to Angelo!" Could we be silent at the rich survey? A host so kindly, in as great a way Invites to banquet, substitutes for show So nd that's diviner still, and bids us know Bach like Beethoven; are we thankless, pray? Thanks, then, to Arthur Chappell, -- thanks to him Whose every guest henceforth not idly vaunts "Sense has received the utmost Nature grants, My cup was filled with rapture to the brim, When, night by night, -- ah, memory, how it haunts! -- Music was poured by perfect ministrants, By Halle, Schumann, Piatti, Joachim. | Other Poems of Interest...JAZZ STATION by MICHAEL S. HARPER LINER NOTES TO AN IMAGINARY PLAYLIST by TERRANCE HAYES VARIATIONS: 13 by CONRAD AIKEN BELIEVE, BELIEVE by BOB KAUFMAN ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN MUSIC by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES THE POWER OF MUSIC by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES |
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