Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN


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First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat
Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness


Oh, lonely heart! why do thy pulses beat
To the hushed music of a voice so dear,
That all sweet, mournful cadences repeat
Its low, bewildering accents to thine ear.
Why dost thou question the pale stars to know
If that rich music floats upon the air,
In those far realms where, else, their fires would glow
Forever beautiful to thy despair?
Trust thou in God; for, far within the veil,
Where glad hosannas through the empyrean roll,
And choral anthems of the angel's hail
With hallelujah's sweet the enfranchised soul, --
The voice that sang earth's sorrow through earth's night,
Shall with glad seraphs sing, in God's great light.





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