Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PATHETIQUE, by NELSON HANBACK


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First Line: Among this somber tone, bend low in sadness
Last Line: To whirl the isles of beauty in music's art.
Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection


Among this somber tone, bend low in sadness,
That flows alone the wind of faith's desire,
To rise in song of melancholy's gladness,
Where blends beauty's Venus among the fire.
Then grasp this torch of Tschaikowsky's ode,
And sink deep the melancholy depth of hell,
Where together, the heartache and beauty rode,
To greater sorrow, no word of man can tell;
It was he, a Schubert's son of greater kin,
Who scored the elegiac breath of Milton's word,
To form Juliet's note from the song of bird,
Where silver tongue, of Orpheus flows therein,
And casts longing eyes from a lonely heart,
To whirl the Isles of Beauty in music's art.





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