A roundel is wrought as a ring or a starbright sphere,
With craft of delight and with cunning of sound unsought,
That the heart of the hearer may smile if to pleasure his ear
A roundel is wrought.
Its jewel of music is carven of all or of aught-
Love, laughter, or mourning-remembrance of rapture or fear-
That fancy may fashion to hang in the ear of thought.
As a bird's quick song runs round, and the hearts in us hear
Pause answer to pause, and again the same strain caught,
So moves the device whence, round as a pearl or tear,
A roundel is wrought.
The Roundel
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Poem topics: fear, heart, laughter, music, smile, song, bird, pleasure, rapture, hear, answer, pearl, tear, fashion, sphere, delight, jewel, thought, sound, love, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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