That Music Always Round Me

THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning-yet long untaught I did not hear;
But now the chorus I hear, and am elated;
A tenor, strong, ascending, with power and health, with glad notes of day-break I hear,
A soprano, at intervals, sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,
A transparent bass, shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
The triumphant tutti-the funeral wailings, with sweet flutes and violins-all
these I
fill myself with;
I hear not the volumes of sound merely-I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery
vehemence
to excel each other in emotion;
I do not think the performers know themselves-but now I think I begin to know them.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Related poetry:

The God Abandons Antony When suddenly, at midnight, you hear An invisible procession going by With exquisite music, voices, Don’t mourn your luck that’s […]...

Italian Music in Dakota THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes’ […]...

Proud Music of The Storm 1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! […]...

Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. Why lov’st thou […]...

Pan Learns Music Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock, Where is sweet Echo, and where is your flock? What are you making […]...

For Music THERE be none of Beauty’s daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet […]...

Stanzas For Music There be none of Beauty’s daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet […]...

Music In The Flat When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat; I had a taste for singing and playing and […]...

Music, When Soft Voices Die Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. […]...

Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st, Upon that blessèd wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers when […]...

Music I Heard Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now […]...

Round About Midnight Jazz radio on a midnight kick, Round about Midnight. Sitting on the bed, With a jazz type chick Round about […]...

On Music When through life unblest we rove, Losing all that made life dear, Should some notes we used to love, In […]...

Natural Music The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers, (Winter has given them gold for silver To stain […]...

Music's Empire First was the world as one great cymbal made, Where jarring winds to infant Nature played. All music was a […]...

Music: An Ode WAS it light that spake from the darkness, Or music that shone from the word, When the night was enkindled […]...

Classical Indian Explanation: Music past the hippies Past Ravi Shankar Eons before When the first Asian snake Came alive Stiffened with sound Through some […]...

Loud Music My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers Throbbing, jam-packing the […]...

Master of Music Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, […]...

Music To Me Is Like Days Once played to attentive faces Music has broken its frame Its bodice of always-weak laces The entirely promiscuous art Pours […]...

Perplexed Music EXPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand, Whence harmonies, we cannot understand, Of God; […]...

No More Music The Porch was blazoned with geranium bloom; Myrtle and jasmine meadows lit the lea; With rose and violet the vale’s […]...

Storm-Music O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees, Nothing but […]...

War-Music Break off! Dance no more! Danger is at the door. Music is in arms. To signal war’s alarms. Hark, a […]...

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 13: The half-shut doors through which we heard that music The half-shut doors through which we heard that music Are softly closed. Horns mutter down to silence. The stars whirl […]...

Call It Music Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song In my own breath. I’m alone here In Brooklyn Heights, late […]...

The Summer Sun Shone Round Me THE summer sun shone round me, The folded valley lay In a stream of sun and odour, That sultry summer […]...

Saved by Music At on time, in America, many years ago, Large gray wolves wont to wander to and fro; And from the […]...

Music I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her […]...

Under The Round Tower ‘Although I’d lie lapped up in linen A deal I’d sweat and little earn If I should live as live […]...

Music When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovely things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in […]...

Water Music The words are a beautiful music. The words bounce like in water. Water music, Loud in the clearing Off the […]...

Music Swims Back To Me Wait Mister. Which way is home? They turned the light out And the dark is moving in the corner. There […]...

Celestial Music I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally […]...

Secret Music I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And […]...

Voices of the Air But then there comes that moment rare When, for no cause that I can find, The little voices of the […]...

Music on Christmas Morning Music I love - but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse […]...

Music I tied together A few slender reeds, cut Notches to breathe across and made Such music you stood Shock still […]...

To Music Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: Silence of paintings. You language where all language Ends. You time Standing vertically on the […]...

Sing Sing Music Was Given Sing sing Music was given To brighten the gay, and kindle the loving; Souls here, like planets in heaven, By […]...