Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER AN INTERVIEW, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography First Line: So while the careless crowd have gazed and gone Last Line: With darkness and with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic | ||||||||
So while the careless crowd have gazed and gone Sits one man stedfast in a chosen place, And of all faces which they gaze upon Desires one only face: For early morning finds the lover there, Also at eventide his eyes are dim, Till at the last he slowly is aware His soul has flown from him. So also he whom vanished organ-lays Have stung to jubilance and thrilled to tears Sits with sonorous memories of praise Tranced in his echoing ears: Thro' all his blood the billowy clangours roll, Thro' all his body leaps the living strain, And sweetly, stilly, in his hidden soul The soft notes sink again. Then while the trooping singers outward range He waits enthralled in that superb surprise: Like airy ghosts they pass him by, nor change His wide and wistful eyes. So stays he in high heaven a little space, Then treads the portal which the others trod, And issues into silence, face to face With darkness and with God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SAINT PAUL: 1 by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS SIMMENTHAL by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A CHILD OF THE AGE by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A COSMIC HISTORY by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A COSMIC OUTLOOK by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A CRY FROM THE STALLS by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A LAST APPEAL by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A LETTER FROM NEWPORT by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A PRAYER by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS A SONG by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS |
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