John Hall Wheelock. Beethoven. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Beethoven

By John Hall Wheelock


BEHOLD the tormented and the fallen angel
Wandering disconsolate the world along,
That seeks to atone with inconsolable anguish
For some old grievance, some remembered wrong;
To storm heaven’s iron gates with angry longing,	5
And beat back homeward in a shower of song!