israfel's

Updated: May 8, 2025

And they say the starry choir And the other listening things, That Israfel's fire is owing to that lyre By which he sits and sings The trembling living wire Of those unusual strings Of those unusual strings. By permission. Kelley has two unpublished songs that show him at his best, both settings of verse by Poe, "Eldorado," which vividly develops the persistence of the knight, and "Israfel."

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions

He wrote rapidly furiously without pausing for thought or for the fastidious choice of words that was apt to make him halt frequently in the act of composition, and the words that he wrote were the wild words wild, but beautiful and moving as an echo from Israfel's own lute of the poem, "Ulalume:"

Mary Newton Stanard - The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe