1. Israfel is the angel of beauty, song, counsel, sympathy, and resurrection. His most instruments are the trumpet and the lute. Being the angel of resurrection, he resurrects those using his trumpet. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem about Israfel as well.
2. A
character in Juvenile
Orion, also known as Tsukasa Amou, part of the Eraser faction. He lives with Tomonori-san, a
priest, and suffers from amnesia.
1. In
Heaven a spirit doth dwell
"Whose
heart-strings are a lute";
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel,
And the giddy stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.
Tottering above
In her highest noon,
The enamored moon
Blushes with
love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Which were seven,)
Pauses in
Heaven.
And they say (the starry choir
And the other listening things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings-
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings.
But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep thoughts are a duty-
Where
Love's a grown-up God-
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a
star.
Therefore thou art not wrong,
Israfeli, who despisest
An unimpassioned song;
To thee the laurels belong,
Best
bard, because the wisest!
Merrily live, and
long!
The ecstasies above
With thy burning measures suit-
Thy grief, thy
joy, thy hate, thy
love,
With the fervor of thy lute-
Well may the stars be mute!
Yes,
Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely- flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.
If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.
