Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, V IS FOR VENUS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES



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First Line: Is that star dumb, or am I deaf?
Last Line: Or that long-fingered star that's dumb?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Venus (planet)


Is that star dumb, or am I deaf?
Hour after hour I listen here
To catch the lovely music played
By Venus down the evening air.

Before the other stars come out,
Before the Moon is in her place --
I sit and watch those fingers move,
And mark the twitching of her face.

Hour after hour I strain my ears
For lovely notes that will not come:
Is it my mortal flesh that's deaf,
Or that long-fingered star that's dumb?





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