Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WORDS, by HAROLD CALEB DALTON First Line: If music could be loosened from its bars Last Line: When she stood white, above her wordless dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, Power Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary | ||||||||
If music could be loosened from its bars, And melody could rise untrammeled, high! Beating impetuous wings against the sky, Tearing in passion at the shaken stars; If music could hold color of wild birds Deep ivory-black, rose madder, crystal jade, And moon-blown gold, and every tint and shade, -- Then music would be beautiful as words. Words give earth color and all harmonies. The scarlet sounds Giovanni's rage imbued With crimson -- such, tint Mycerinus' knees; Song flamed on Tristan's lips when Iseult wooed; And viols sobbed in mauve, words Mary said, When she stood white, above her Wordless Dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER CHANGELING by HAROLD CALEB DALTON |
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