| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Love and Music |
| | | Philip Bourke Marston (1850–87) |
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| I LISTEN’D to the music broad and deep: | |
| I heard the tenor in an ecstasy | |
| Touch the sweet, distant goal; I heard the cry | |
| Of prayer and passion; and I heard the sweep | |
| Of mighty wings, that in their waving keep | 5 |
| The music that the spheres make endlessly;— | |
| Then my cheek shiver’d, tears made blind mine eye; | |
| As flame to flame I felt the quick blood leap, | |
| And, through the tides and moonlit winds of sound, | |
| To me love’s passionate voice grew audible. | 10 |
| Again I felt thy heart to my heart bound, | |
| Then silence on the viols and voices fell; | |
| But, like the still, small voice within a shell, | |
| I heard Love thrilling through the void profound. | |
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