Joy of my life while left me here! And still my Love! How in thy absence thou dost steer Me from above! A life well led This truth commends, With quick or dead It never ends. 2. Stars are of mighty use; the night Is dark, and long; The road foul ; and where one goes right, Six may go wrong. One twinkling ray, Shot o'er some cloud, May clear much way, And guide a crowd. 3. God's saints are shining lights: who stays Here long must pass O'er dark hills, swift streams, and steep ways As smooth as glass; But these all night, Like candles, shed Their beams, and light Us into bed. 4. They are''"indeed''"our pillar fires, Seen as we go; They are that City's shining spires We travel to: A swordlike gleam Kept man for sin First out; this beam Will guide him in. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE'S CAUTION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE BROOK; AN IDYL by ALFRED TENNYSON TURN O LIBERTAD by WALT WHITMAN SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 76 by BLISS CARMAN THE GATE by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1815-16 by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2) by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) |