Get Your Premium Membership

The Messianic Aspect of Robert Browning's Pied Piper

Who is like the Pied Piper in his coat of red and gold? Who like the minstrel who sings away our gnawing cares and drowns them in the rivers that wash the green-blue sea? Who is like the physician, healing of plagues in Egypt land or who is like the prophet leading out his children bound? Who is like the chastener who humbles the proud and vain? Who is like the victor who "can cross that mighty top”? Who is like the player who breathed sweetly as bird at dawn three notes upon his pipe? Who is like the skull-capped dancer out-dancing the dancer death? Can we, feet-frozen, answer? Who is like the Pied Piper in his coat of red and gold, whose eyes like salted flames absorb green seas and golden shores, who leads away his children to a blessed promised land, who like the sun in red and gold dies but to rise again? Whither he passed we do not know, nor guess his kith and kin. He is like Melchizedek, musician priest and king. He is the lord of summer, of autumn winter and spring.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

A comment has not been posted for this poem. Encourage a poet by being the first to comment.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things