You are star and fire-light, Why do you pause In your radiant wanderings To let this earth-bound one Dull your lustre? It would suffice Were you to leave a little smile As you passed by Some scented night. Go -- while there is yet time With a song on your lips, Lest your flame Be turned to ashes. Hold fast to your star-spun desire For I tell you earth will smother fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES by THOMAS WYATT THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE WIDOW MALONE by CHARLES JAMES LEVER ELAINE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |