Grace Before Song
Grace Before Song - meaning Summary
Prayer for Poetic Grace
Pound's short lyric is a prayer asking God to bless his poetry with merciful brightness. He compares human days and songs to rain drops on a vast, leaden sea, hoping his poems will become bright, fleeting mirrors that catch and reflect divine splendor. The speaker asks that his songs bring light to a grey, dull people and be willing to die beautifully in that brief radiance.
Read Complete AnalysesLord God of heaven that with mercy dight Th'alternate prayer wheel of the night and light Eternal hath to thee, and in whose sight Our days as rain drops in the sea surge fall, As bright white drops upon a leaden sea Grant so my songs to this grey folk may be: As drops that dream and gleam and falling catch the sun Evan'scent mirrors every opal one Of such his splendor as their compass is, So, bold My Songs, seek ye such death as this.
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