First fashioned in the artist's brain, It stood as in the marble vein, Revealed to him alone; Nor could he from its native night Have led it to the living light, Save through the lifeless stone. E'en so, of silence and of sound A twin-born mystery is found, Like as of death and birth; Without the pause we had not heard The harmony, nor caught the word That heaven reveals to earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VOLUNTEER by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH AD LESBIAM by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS COWLEY: THE GARDEN by ALEXANDER POPE A LITTLE SONG OF LIFE by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE THE MOCKING-BIRD by FRANK LEBBY STANTON THE LIGHT OF ASIA by EDWIN ARNOLD |