BRIGHT Sirius! that when Orion pales To dotlings under moonlight still art keen With cheerful fervour of a warrior's mien Who holds in his great heart the battle-scales: Unquenched of flame though swift the flood assails, Reducing many lustrous to the lean: Be thou my star, and thou in me be seen To show what source divine is, and prevails. Long watches through, at one with godly night, I mark thee planting joy in constant fire; And thy quick beams, whose jets of life inspire Life to the spirit, passion for the light, Dark Earth since first she lost her lord from sight Has viewed and felt them sweep her as a lyre. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOULS LAKE by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD AN UNANSWERABLE APOLOGY FOR THE RICH by MARY BARBER WALKEN HWOME AT NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES THE TRIUMPHS OF THY CONQUERING POWER by WILLIAM HILEY BATHURST ROAD AND HILLS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE FALCON by GRACE UPDEGRAFF BERGEN TO HILDA OF HER ROSES by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING IN A LETTER TO C.P. ESQ., ILL WITH RHEUMATISM by WILLIAM COWPER |