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Israfel

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Israfel, poem by Poe, published in Poems (1831) and several times revised in later editions. It is prefaced by an altered quotation from the Koran: “And the angel Israfel, whose heart‐strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures.” In eight stanzas of great metrical variety, ranging from four‐ to two‐stress lines, the poem contrasts the ideal dwelling place of the angel with the poet's own “world of sweets and sours,” and concludes that if they were to change placesHe might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.

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Israfel

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Israfel in Muslim tradition, the angel of music, who will sound the trumpet on the Day of Judgement.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Israfel." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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