A WINGÈD death has smitten dumb thy bells, And poured them molten from thy tragic towers: Now are the windows dust that were thy flowers Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels. Gone are the angels and the archangels, The saints, the little lamb above thy door, The shepherd Christ! They are not, any more, Save in the soul where exiled beauty dwells. But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom That old divine insistence of the sea, When music flows along the sculptured stone In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom Like faithful sunset, warm immortally! Thy bells live on, and Heaven is in their tone! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TERNISSA, FR HELLENICS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE WIND ON THE HILLS by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER AMY WENTWORTH; FOR WILLIAM BRADFORD by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 29. CHRIST AND ENGLAND by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE LIVING LOST by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |