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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOLLYWOOD BOWL, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD First Line: An interlude. The clamor hushed with breathless cry Last Line: Then shatter into soundless rhythms of the night. Subject(s): Hollywood Bowl, California | |||
An interlude. The clamor hushed with breathless cry -- A meteor has flamed its gold across the sky! Within the chalice of the hills a cricket's drone Shrills in brief intervals of chirring overtone Where music shakes from silent frets its silver bars That quicken into symphonies beneath the stars. Vibrant and warm as summer wind and rain, Accord with joy, Beethoven's Ninth comes back again; Dvorak's trumpets a fanfaronade blare out, "Comrades, new dreams for old" its strident shout. Anon there follows a transcendent, slower strain Fraught with Tschaikowsky's grief and loneliness and pain; Caught from the very heart of heaven its magic sings Of things eternal, love and bubbling light and broken wings. Brahms surges forth sustaining, splendid and soul-free, Harmonic master of a timeless poetry. And Cesar Franck wrests from the strings and woodwind notes High colors of cathedral glass, grey threads of beggars' coats. Sibelius shapes his phantasies from frozen sound Chill as the Finland coast by ice-green snow packs bound. And Wagner revels with the eager, listening throng In leit motif and thundertones of legend song; Still rings the warrior clan's Valkyrie call, While beauty lies within Valhalla's thrall; The dragon guards his baneful hoard and vigil keeps; The fire theme flashes through the dark...Brunhilde sleeps. So do the moods of men pass swiftly one by one, Etheric records writ with dreams upon the sun, That sparkle into brilliance like the meteor's flight, Then shatter into soundless rhythms of the night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN NICOTINA by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD ON THE SAND DUNES by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD WAR SEQUENCE: ARMIES WITH MASKS by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD WAR SEQUENCE: BOMBING PLANE by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD WAR SEQUENCE: WAR ALTARS by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD WHEN I WROTE A LITTLE by HAYDEN CARRUTH SURFACES AND MASKS; 12 by CLARENCE MAJOR LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT; AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO OUR BLESSED LADY (1) by HENRY CONSTABLE TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS |
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