FOUR singers with a Delphic seriousness In harmony's kind problem play their part, And I, who see and hear, think they express Nature's best gift, the calm delight of art. The fourfold music takes its twining ways, And like a rich spring underwood embowers Their careful theme, which from the tonal maze Sudden as a nightingale all bright out-flowers When that dark lady bids a madrigal. O sweet content, reward in deed, release Of spirit here in imperfection shut; Symmetry's answer given without a "but"; Deep-moved I mark their choral masterpiece, Their union in each swell and dying fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FOOL AND THE POET by ALEXANDER POPE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 36. GOLD THE PICKLOCK by PHILIP AYRES THE CLIFF-TOP by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE FAERY FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN A MOTHER'S LAMENT [FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON] by ROBERT BURNS |