dots-menu
×

Home  »  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse  »  John Hall Wheelock

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Beethoven

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,

And beat back homeward in a shower of song!