How low when angels fall their black descent,
Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain
Of music, that nigh throning wisdom went,
And one false note cast wailful to the insane.
Now seems the language heard of Love as rain
To make a mire where fruitfulness was meant.
The golden harp gives out a jangled strain,
Too like revolt from heaven's Omnipotent.
But listen in the thought; so may there come
Conception of a newly-added chord,
Commanding space beyond where ear has home.
In labour of the trouble at its fount,
Leads Life to an intelligible Lord
The rebel discords up the sacred mount.
The Promise In Disturbance
George Meredith
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Poem topics: heaven, home, life, music, pain, rain, space, wisdom, listen, language, thunder, black, labour, golden, thought, trouble, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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