Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHIPS AND STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: As soon as I began to name a star
Last Line: Across the heavens, whose names I will not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Heaven; Stars; Paradise


As soon as I began to name a star,
Or judge a ship by rigging, mast or spar,
I, seeing more with eyes than with my mind,
Had fears that I would soon go beauty blind.
But now, not caring if the ship that's seen
Is schooner-rigged, a barque or brigantine,
I look beyond my eyes to where she rides
Under a rainbow, beautiful; or glides
Before the wind, on one side of her belly.
And as young lambs or sheep all white and woolly,
I see the stars in one flock nibbling go
Across the Heavens, whose names I will not know.





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