Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HEART ECHOES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO First Line: Should you ask me whence these accents Last Line: Through the here and the hereafter! Subject(s): Hearts; Love | ||||||||
Should you ask me whence these accents, Whence these scattered words and phrases, Threaded on a ray of gladness, Gladness that the poor are aided, That their wants will be provided, Gleaming with the dew of kindness, Stars that shine through time and distance, With their frequent repetitions, Flights of wild imagination, As of one who strives, but knows not How to help a stricken brother, I would answer, I would tell you, From the heart I there have heard them, From its childhood's rosy morning, From its night of pain and shadow, From its strength, its noontide glory. Should you ask me how the heartstrings, Could produce such strains and measures, I would answer, I would tell you: In each heart a lute is slumb'ring; All its silvery chords are silent Till the breath of some sweet feeling, Tenderness or purest pity, Sweeps them, like a harp æeolian; Then they sway and softly tremble, And the heart is filled with music. Thus I wrote them as I heard them. Stealing softly through the distance, As in sunbeams I would pen them Deeds of charity and kindness Pen them now to glow forever, Through the Here and the Hereafter! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DREAM OF LIFE by MIRIAM DEL BANCO A FLOW'RET IN THE GARLAND; FOR OUT GREAT CENTENARIAN by MIRIAM DEL BANCO |
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