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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SHATTERED LUTE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I touched the heart that loved me as a player
Last Line: Whose fingers stray upon a shattered lute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Variant Title(s): Without Him
Subject(s): Lutes
First Line: I touched the heart that loved me as a player
Last Line: Whose fingers stray upon a shattered lute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Variant Title(s): Without Him
Subject(s): Lutes
I touched the heart that loved me as a player
Touches a lyre. Content with my poor skill,
No touch saves mine knew my beloved (and still
I thought at times: Is there no sweet lost air
Old loves could wake in him, I cannot share?)
O he alone, alone could so fulfill
My thoughts in sound to the measurement of my will.
He is gone, and silence takes me unaware.
The songs I knew not he resumes, set free
From my constraining love, alas for me!
His part in our tune goes with him; my part
Is locked in me for ever; I stand as mute
As one with vigorous music in his heart
Whose fingers stray upon a shattered lute.
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