The harp has fallen from the master's hand; Mute is the music, voiceless are the strings, Save such faint discord as the wild wind flings In sad aeolian murmurs through the land. The tide of melody, whose billows grand Flowed o'er the world in clearest utterings, Now, in receding current, sobs and sings That song we never wholly understand. * * O, eyes where glorious prophecies belong, And gracious reverence to humbly bow, And kingly spirit, proud, and pure, and strong; O, pallid minstrel with the laureled brow, And lips so long attuned to sacred song, How sweet must be the Heavenly anthem now! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE RAT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON INSTANS TYRANNUS by ROBERT BROWNING THE LAST MAN by THOMAS CAMPBELL CLOUD-LIFE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE FIRE SIDE; A PASTORAL SOLILOQUY by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE FIRST MATERNITY by KATHARINE BROWN BURT |