person
David
The biblical king and harper-psalmist; in Das Stunden-Buch 48 the speaker becomes a 'proud city of the Lord' in whom 'David's thanks has died away,' lying 'in twilights of the harp.'
Reading notes
- The Book of Hours §48 David
King David, the harper-psalmist; the praying self becomes a 'city of the Lord' in whom 'David's thanks has died away,' lying 'in twilights of the harp.'
- New Poems: The Other Part §10 harp-boy
The young David, whose harp soothed Saul's torment and whom the jealous king then sought to kill 'down to the tenth generation' (1 Samuel 16-19).
- New Poems §10 The king
King David in his last days, grown cold, beside whom Abishag is laid.
- New Poems §11 this boy's hand
The young David, harper and singer before Saul, later king of Israel.