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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONOCHROME, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: Your beauty is as subtle as a strain Last Line: Brazen as cymbals, boisterous as drums! Subject(s): Drums; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments | |||
Your beauty is as subtle as a strain Of quiet music hardly sensed or heard, Music with accents softened, tempered, blurred, Which scarcely seem recorded by the brain; Till afterwards, when mightier measures wane Leaving the memory unthrilled, unstirred, That strain returns like some sweet spell deferred Binding the senses in a lyric chain. Your beauty is such music, muted low, It lingers when more poignant loveliness Has lost its magic. Subtle, gentle, slow, An anodyne to all life's bitter stress, It thrills me—and all beauty else becomes Brazen as cymbals, boisterous as drums! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON ONE AND ONE by CECIL DAY LEWIS VISITING SUNDAY: CONVENT NOVITIATE by MADELINE DEFREES SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST by NORMAN DUBIE NEAR MISS HAIKU by ANSELM HOLLO THE PLAYER PIANO by RANDALL JARRELL A BANJO SONG by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |
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