OH, for a burst of song, Exultant, deep, and strong, One gush of music's billowy might, To bear my soul away Into the realms of day, From these dim glacier-caves of Life's cold night! Oh, for a sunset strain Wafted o'er slumberous main, To enter, spirit-like, my prisoned heart, And there, with viewless hand, Unloose each mortal band, That in the songs of heaven I too might learn a part! The sweetest music here Calls forth the quiet tear, For grief and gladness flow in blended stream; Oh for the joyous day (Can it be far away?) When one great Alleluia song shall chase Life's tuneless dream! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON COLLEGE DRINKING SONG by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE ROSE AND THE BEE by SARA TEASDALE TO GERMANY by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY IN LIGHTER VEIN by ELIZABETH KEMPER ADAMS A SONG FOR THE SINGLE TABLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST THE SENTINEL; TO MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT MY SON'S SON TO HIS SON'S SON - PERHAPS by MABEL RUTHERFORD BRIDGES |