Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VOICES TELL OVER, by GUSTAVE KAHN


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First Line: The voices tell over: the song that breaks
Last Line: Brusque reawakening and end of love.
Subject(s): Flutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


The voices tell over: the song that breaks
In her heart, her heart draped in its shroud;
'Tis the sound of the flutes that the wind wakes
And the pale lilies in nuptial proud.

And down ideal porphyry stairs
Slowly, with forehead low, she slips
In a delicate network of ideal Ophirs
With submissive hands and bruised lips

And be sure to suckle the frank surprised expanding
At the brusque wakening to passion's trove—
A brief mirage of fond misunderstanding
Brusque reawakening and end of love.





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