O snowy star! which I all night have eyed, As some poor girl her lover's moon-lit sail, Bound for the outer sea at early tide - The rosy billows and the morning gale - I grieve to lose thee! for the night will fail And thou be gone at dawning; but, to-night, Thou fill'st my cup of tears with silver light, And lustres of regret serene and pale: Thou dost express and symbolize the whole Of those deep thoughts that pierce me and refine; But see! the daytime comes with all its dole! Ah! woody hills and autumn-tints divine! Ah! mournful eyes! Ah! sad poetic soul! Ah! beauteous thoughts and fatal woes of mine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FISH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS DISAPPOINTED by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR WHEN I'M KILLED by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES SHUT OUT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE LEPER (2) by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS ORLANDO FURIOSO: CANTO 10. by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO |