A Musical

Outside the rain upon the street,
        The sky all grim of hue,
Inside, the music–painful sweet,
        And yet I heard but you.

As is a thrilling violin,
        So is your voice to me,
And still above the other strains,
        It sang in ecstasy.
 

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. 

About this Poem

“A Musical” was published in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913).