Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REQUIEM; TO THE MUSIC OF MOZART, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: Gone art thou, in youthful sweetness Last Line: Point the path to heaven and thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Parting | ||||||||
I. GONE art thou, in youthful sweetness, Time's short changeful voyage o'er; Now thy beauty in completeness Blooms on Heaven's unfading shore: What to us is life behind thee? Darkness and despair alone! When with sighs we seek to find thee, Echo answers moan for moan! II. Not in winter's stormy bluster Didst thou droop in pale decay, But 'mid summer light and lustre Pass to Paradise away, Yes! when toned to rapture only, Sang the birds among the bowers, Rapt from earth to leave us lonely, Bliss was thine and sorrow ours! III. Mourners, solemn vigil keeping, Knelt in silence round thy bed; Could they deem thee only sleeping, When to Heaven thy spirit fled? Yes! that spirit then was winging Upwards from its shell of clay, Guardian angels round it singing "Welcome to the realms of day!" IV. Less when Eve's low shadows darkling Shut the wild flowers on the lea, Than when Dawn's last star is sparkling, Silence draws our thoughts to thee Theewho, robed in light excelling, Stood'st a seraph by the hearth Far too bright for mortal dwelling, Farby far too good for earth! V. Fare-thee-well! a track of glory Shows where'er thy steps have been, Making Life a lovely story, Earth a rich, romantic scene: Dim when Duty's way before us, As the magnet charts the sea, May thy pure star glowing o'er us Point the path to Heaven and Thee! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. by JUNE JORDAN WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA by JAMES JOYCE SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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