Voices of earth
Archibald Lampman’s poem “Voices of Earth” was first published in his 1899 collection “Alcyone”.
Archibald Lampman was born on 17 November 1861 in Morpeth, Upper Canada, and he died on 10 February 1899 in Ottawa, Ontario, at the age of 37.Lampman, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia is “generally considered the finest of Canada’s late-19th-century poets in English.” He is considered one of Canada’s Confederation Poets, a group that includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
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We have not heard the music of the spheres, The song of star to star, but there are sounds More deep than human joy and human tears, That Nature uses in her common rounds; The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain The oak, the roaring of the sea’s surge, might Of thunder breaking afar off, or rain That falls by minutes in the summer night. These are the voices of earth’s secret soul, Uttering the mystery from which she came. To him who hears them grief beyond control, Or joy inscrutable without a name, Wakes in his heart thoughts bedded there, impearled, Before the birth and making of the world.