Ghost Music by Robert Graves

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 15, 2016   Ghost Music   Robert Graves

Gloomy and bare the organ-loft, Bent-backed and blind the organist. From rafters looming shadowy, From the pipes' tuneful company, Drifted together drowsily, Innumerable, formless, dim, The ghosts of long-dead melodies, Of anthems, stately, thunderous, Of Kyries shrill and tremulous: In melancholy drowsy-sweet They huddled there in harmony. Like bats at noontide rafter-hung.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Ghost Music" was published in Over the Brazier (The Poetry Bookshop, 1917).   Robert Graves was born on July 24, 1895, in Wimbledon, England. His collections of poetry include Goliath and David (Chiswick Press, 1916) and The Pier-Glass (Alfred A. Knopf, 1921). He died on December 7, 1985. Poetry by Graves   The Complete Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2003)  "The Balloon of the Mind" by W. B. Yeats "As I Walked Out One Evening" by W. H. Auden "The Wind Sleepers" by H. D. Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038