Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VOICE AND VISION, by WILLIAM WATSON


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First Line: If I had never known your face at all
Last Line: And the blind cry of all the seas that roll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 8
Subject(s): Faces; Pain; Soul; Voices; Suffering; Misery


IF I had never known your face at all,
Had only heard you speak, beyond thick screen
Of leaves, in an old garden, when the sheen
Of morning dwelt on dial and ivied wall,
I think your voice had been enough to call
Yourself before me, in living vision seen,
So pregnant with your Essence had it been,
So charged with you, in each soft rise and fall.

At least I know, that when upon the night
With chanted word your voice lets loose your soul,
I am stricken and pierced and cloven with Delight
That hath all Pain within it, and the whole
World's tears; all ecstasy of inward sight;
And the blind cry of all the seas that roll.





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