A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared. Creatures of stillness crowded from the bright unbound forest, out of their lairs and nests; and it was not from any dullness, not from fear, that they were so quiet in themselves, but from just listening. Bellow, roar, shriek seemed small inside their hearts. And where there had been at most a makeshift hut to receive the music, a shelter nailed up out of their darkest longing, with an entryway that shuddered in the wind- you built a temple deep inside their hearing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GYPSY MAN by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES SUMMER LONGINGS by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY PHRYGES: JUSTICE PROTECTS THE KING by AESCHYLUS LA MORT D'ARTHUR by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2 by WILLIAM BLAKE ISAIAH: 35 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD SONNET ON MOOR PARK - WRITTEN AT PARIS, MAY 11, 1826 by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES |