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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AND IF THE SONG SHOULD DIE?, by ANNIE HATCH BOORNAZIAN First Line: And if the song should die...What then...O man Last Line: The lilt of spring when leaves of autumn fall? | |||
And if the song should die ... what then ... O man Of little faith! Whose lips would shape the tune Of milky ways or sound the flute of Pan, If once the pendulum should pause too soon? Whose heart would swing across the empty space To bridge that silent time, if when the song Should die there was no other one to place A lyric melody where shadows throng? O nightingale, and all lone throats that sing, O blue bird, meadow lark and woodland thrush, To you the weight of leaden thought must cling And tick away the hours of midnight hush. But if the song should die ... who would recall The lilt of spring when leaves of autumn fall? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HILL WIFE: THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM by ROBERT FROST TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS by RICHARD LOVELACE THE HAPPY LIFE OF A COUNTRY PARSON by ALEXANDER POPE THE CRADLE SONG OF THE POOR by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780] by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THE SNAIL by ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |
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