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Collected Poems

SHORT POEMS — FRAGMENTS

A voice arose

(Alexandrines)

 

A voice arose that was so sweet and terrible

It thrilled the heart with love and pain, as if all hell

Tuned with all heaven in one inextricable note.

Born from abysmal depths on highest heights to float,

It carried all sorrow that the souls of creatures share,

Yet hinted every rapture that the gods can bear.

O Sun of God who camst into my blackest Night

To sound and know its gulfs and bring the immortal light.