Browning's Shorter Poems

And I paused, held my breath in such silence, and listened apart;
And the tent shook, for mighty Saul shuddered:  and sparkles ’gan dart
From the jewels that woke in his turban, at once with a start,
All its lordly male-sapphires, and rubies courageous at heart. 
So the head:  but the body still moved not, still hung there erect. 
And I bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked,
As I sang,—­