FAIREST of all, bright Urania! Who, on Helicon's top, sing to the golden stars, When night draws all her curtains round, And far over the hills shines the moon's mellow light; First she gilds the tall mountain-top, Then on glittering streams, and the wide-spreading plain, And the dark waves of the tossing sea, Pours all her mellowest beams, till earth and ocean smile -- Fairest of all, bright Urania! Sing to thy golden-stringed lyre, sing the sweet song of Heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUMMER'S JOE by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON TO LIFE by HELEN TAPPAN BERTHOFF THE HEATHER ON FIRE by MATHILDE BLIND ASOLANDO: THE LADY AND THE PAINTER by ROBERT BROWNING IN THE HIGH HILLS by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT MORNING SUMMONS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON ALICE DU CLOS: OR THE FORKED TONGUE. A BALLAD by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION TO WILLIAM NORTHCOT by WILLIAM COWPER |