Once, in the velvet blackness of the night I saw a single star -- Golden and wondrous, just outside my reach, As dreams so often are. I watched it with a longing in my heart That it were always mine; That I could place it where forever I Alone might see it shine. It could not be -- the morning came, and then The star seemed out of sight; The sun shone on the day's realities; Gone was the wondrous night. And yet, though work contentment brings each day In sunshine and the things that are -- In darkness still my heart turns back again To the glory of that star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 2 by EZRA POUND THE LITTLE VAGABOND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE COWSLIPS AND LARKS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE ONE GRAY HAIR by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO by WILFRED OWEN THE DAUGHTERS OF ATLAS by AESCHYLUS |