Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASPIRATION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poet's Biography First Line: I can strike the minor chord and sing Last Line: In heaven's eternal rose. Subject(s): Desire; Success; Wishes | ||||||||
I can strike the minor chord and sing; Is the major chord denied? I would sing with the sun, and chime with the moon As it sways the heaving tide. I would ride upon the neck of the blast Grasping the mane of the rack, When the snorting thunder plashes his hoof In the lightning's ragged track. Or where the battle thunders its bruit, There let the spirit pant, When death and victory mingle their note In one triumphal chant. I would mount to the topmost peak and ken With an eagle's sight afar, Swoop to the depths and up again Across the path of a star. Where myriad suns commingling blaze In the marge of farthermost space, And system in system clangorous rolls Athwart the abyss's face, Let my soul drink in the rushing song Of a thousand worlds in one, The music of time forever dying And time forever begun. On the wings of morning let me rise, On the plumes of evening fall, With the orient clang at the gates of sleep. With evening unfold her pall; And with the course of the chariot sun, Let me follow the life of man, With the eye of heaven looking upon The great and the little plan. For I would sing as an Angel might chant Of all that he sees below, When he gazes down on the whirling globe With its human ebb and flow; And, summing up in one great chord, Bring the song to a perfect close, As Dante's diapason blooms In heaven's eternal rose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...O TO BE A DRAGON by MARIANNE MOORE FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 1. THE GOOD OGRE'S BEARD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR I WANT THIS CORNER EMPTY (PERSEPHONE SPEAKING)' by JULIE CARR THE THREE WISHES by BILLY COLLINS A-WISHING WELL by ROBERT FROST A FABLE FOR LYDIA by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN |
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