You watchers of the stars in the clear night, You who have marked and weighed their constant pace, And nightly tell the instant and the place Where each will reappear or pass from sight; Look down, you watchers -- scan the timeless fight By finite beings of a fleeting race To track eternity, to transcend space, Transcend disease, transcend the source of light. It is no sight less earthly than of star To see a mortal man, regardless death, Regardless multitudes without a dream, Fight on to push the flicker of a gleam, Fight to resolve the essence of a breath And die, not seeing one retreating bar. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SMILE AS SMALL AS MINE by EMILY DICKINSON SETTING SAIL by EMILY DICKINSON CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN DICKENS IN CAMP by FRANCIS BRET HARTE AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER by EDWARD HERBERT SONNET ON FAME (2) by JOHN KEATS |