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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S MUSIC, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poet's Biography First Line: Love held a harp between his hands, and Last Line: Such was love's music, -- lo, the shatter'd harp! Subject(s): Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres | |||
LOVE held a harp between his hands, and, lo! The master hand, upon the harp-strings laid By way of prelude, such a sweet tune play'd As made the heart with happy tears o'erflow; Then sad and wild did that strange music grow, And, -- like the wail of woods by storm gusts sway'd, While yet the awful thunder's wrath is stay'd, And earth lies faint beneath the coming blow, -- Still wilder wax'd the tune; until at length The strong strings, strain'd by sudden stress and sharp Of that musician's hand intolerable, And jarr'd by sweep of unrelenting strength, Sunder'd, and all the broken music fell. Such was Love's music, -- lo, the shatter'd harp! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING by GREGORY ORR TO AN AEOLIAN HARP by SARA TEASDALE THE AEOLIAN HARP by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE HARP by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN by HERMAN MELVILLE THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL by MARIANNE MOORE RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP by HENRY DAVID THOREAU AEOLIAN HARP (1) by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE OLD CHURCHYARD OF BONCHURCH by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON |
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