Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DISTANT MUSIC, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: Far now from you, dear love, I know
Last Line: The cause of all that you have told.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


FAR now from you, dear love, I know
How well you build from bow and strings,
Framing the melodies that flow
From your beloved minstrel kings.

But now the strings are mute, your hands
Are still, the bow is laid aside:
I see you searching out the lands
Whence love beats back to you full-tide.

And standing so you are the birth
Of all the themes that you rewake;
Brahms and Beethoven bade the earth
Blossom in music for your sake.

Now falls your phrasing from afar,
Telling how they divined of old --
You cease, and on the moment are
The cause of all that you have told.





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