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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY JACOBUS STAINER, by EDITH FLINT VON WALD
First Line: Oh silent violin
Last Line: As fades the beauty of an autumn day.
Subject(s): Violins
First Line: Oh silent violin
Last Line: As fades the beauty of an autumn day.
Subject(s): Violins
Oh silent Violin,
Whose strings once sounded the immortal music
Of souls now gone,
Give to mine ears again the magic
Of thy sobbing songs of sweetness,
And blend thy harmonies with the strains
No mortal hand hath wrought
Or ear received -- but whose fair chimes
Awake an echo of dear sadness
As breaks the heart!
Oh give again, as once thou gavest,
Love's fairest songs of longing,
And let a hand that loves thee
Caress thy strings -- or sting them into life
That throbbing prays, and praying fades away,
As fades the beauty of an autumn day.
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