Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT THE POPULAR CONCERTS, 1868-1898, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)


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First Line: Silent with listening soul I hear
Last Line: Linked harmonies of gold.
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


SILENT with listening soul I hear,
Strains hushed for many a noisy year,
The passionate chords which wake the tear,
The sweet old love-songs dear.

The dreams of youth surround me still,
Thin thronging ghosts the benches fill,
The old hopes glow, the old fears chill,
Dead aspirations thrill.

A little graver, or more gray,
Though thirty years have fled away,
Scarce changed, the same musicians play
The self-same themes to-day.

How swift Time fleets, yet here how slow,
How scant the visible changes show,
New hopes inspire, new empires grow,
Yet still the master's bow

With magic wakes the slumbering string;
Glad tears, the slow bass gains to bring;
The silvery, swift sonatas ring,
High soaring voices sing.

'Tis I am changed, yet ah! not cold,
Oh, precious tones and strains of old,
Still round Life's warring discords fold
Linked harmonies of gold.





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