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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MUSIC, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poet's Biography First Line: What angel viol, effortless and sure Last Line: Dies into rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Music & Musicians | |||
What angel viol, effortless and sure, Speaks through the straining silence, whence, ah whence, That tremulous low joy, so keen, so pure, That all existence narrows to one sense, Lapped round and round With rapture of sweet sound? Oh, now it wins the giddy steep, and loud and loud Over the chasm and the cloud, Swells its triumphant tide Higher and higher, and undenied Insistent to the star! — Then lowlier, softer, dreamful, droops and dies Over the closing eyes, Dies with my spirit away, afar Swayed on some ocean's breast Dies into rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINER NOTES TO AN IMAGINARY PLAYLIST by TERRANCE HAYES VARIATIONS: 13 by CONRAD AIKEN BELIEVE, BELIEVE by BOB KAUFMAN ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN MUSIC by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES THE POWER OF MUSIC by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES A MAZURKA OF CHOPIN by JAMES RENNELL RODD |
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