All day with anxious heart and wondering ear I listened to the city; heard the ground Echo with human thunder, and the sound Go reeling down the streets and disappear. The headlong hours, in their wild career, Shouted and sang until the world was drowned With babel-voices, each one more profound . . . All day it surged -- but nothing could I hear. That night the country never seemed so still; The trees and grasses spoke without a word To stars that brushed them with their silver wings. Together with the moon I climbed the hill, And, in the very heart of Silence, heard The speech and music of immortal things. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LAMBERT HUTCHINS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET EVENING IN A SUGAR ORCHARD by ROBERT FROST DIVIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ESTRANGEMENT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |