The mountains stoop to hills and hills to stones, That shrug and wrinkle, hunch their backs and crook A rhythmic stairway for the water tones To strike clear intervals and cause a brook To lead a melody, arpeggios Might hurry to a precipice and lose, If shorter gaps, cautious rests, softer blows Forgot to intervene, or art to choose; Below, the music broadens to a stream, An island interrupts with dissonance, But contrapuntal fusion saves the theme, And reaches resolution in the sea: Horizons round the cadence, close the trance Whose stones and water carve a symphony. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG by FRANCOIS JOACHIM DE PIERRE DE BERNIS TO CATULLUS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE CANDIDATE: INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS- THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS by GEORGE CRABBE THE WATER CURE; A TALE IN THE MANNER OF PRIOR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON AIRPLANE IN STORMY PASS by CORNELIA DODDS TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD; BEGUN IN FRANCE BUT NEVER PERFECTED by JOHN DONNE |