SEE through yon cloud that rolls in wrath, One little star benignant peep, To light along their trackless path The wanderers of the stormy deep. And thus, oh Hope! thy lovely form In sorrow's gloomy night shall be The sun that looks through cloud and storm Upon a dark and moonless sea. When heaven is all serene and fair, Full many a brighter gem we meet; 'Tis when the tempest hovers there, Thy beam is most divinely sweet. The rainbow, when the sun declines, Like faithless friend will disappear; Thy light, dear star! more brightly shines When all is wail and weeping here. And though Aurora's stealing beam May wake a morning of delight, 'Tis only thy consoling beam Will smile amid affliction's night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SONNET: TO SLEEP by JOHN KEATS STILL, STILL WITH THEE by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AEOLIAN HARP (2) by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM A SCHOOL ECLOGUE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE ORIGIN OF SONG-WRITING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TO A LADY WHO HAD LOST A RELATIVE by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |