Stephen Vincent Benet Music Poems

  • 1.
    I am a shell. From me you shall not hear
    The splendid tramplings of insistent drums,
    The orbed gold of the viol's voice that comes,
    Heavy with radiance, languorous and clear.
    ...
  • 2.
    My friend went to the piano; spun the stool
    A little higher; left his pipe to cool;
    Picked up a fat green volume from the chest;
    And propped it open.
    ...
  • 3.
    Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron,
    Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked
    Over the rough crest of the hairy wood
    In angry scorn; the grey road twisted, kinked,
    ...
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