On Hearing The Sounds Of An Aolian Harp [sonnet]

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Title:     On Hearing The Sounds Of An Aolian Harp [sonnet]
Author: Henry Kirk White [More Titles by White]

So ravishingly soft upon the tide
Of the infuriate gust, it did career,
It might have soothed its rugged charioteer,
And sunk him to a zephyr; then it died,
Melting in melody;--and I descried,
Borne to some wizard stream, the form appear
Of Druid sage, who on the far-off ear
Pour'd his lone song, to which the surge replied:
Or thought I heard the hapless pilgrim's knell,
Lost in some wild enchanted forest's bounds,
By unseen beings sung; or are these sounds
Such as, 'tis said, at night are known to swell
By startled shepherd on the lonely heath,
Keeping his night-watch sad, portending death?

[The end]
Henry Kirk White's poem: On Hearing The Sounds Of An Aolian Harp [sonnet]

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