Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PALACE OF STARLIGHT, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN


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THE PALACE OF STARLIGHT, by                    
First Line: By day men pity me
Last Line: The stars build before my eyes.
Subject(s): Women


BY day men pity me,
For all has been taken from me,
And I lie without fouton on a heap of straw
In a hut open to wind and rain.
But none know my riches; they are hidden
In the starlight that by night streams in
Through the broken door when I am alone.
Then all I have had comes back to me,
And much that I never had or hoped for.
So I am rich with the riches that none can filch;
For though the stars flee before the spears of the Day God,
Yet to-morrow night shyly will they come forth again.
Moving softly, as gentle women who might have loved me,
Tripping in time to music that sings in my soul.
Though men have failed me, and women, yet is Nature constant,
And I am happy, clasping star beams to my breast,
As I wander at night through the palace
The stars build before my eyes.





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