I SAT in the dark, at night, outside a little cottage door, And the light from within streamed through the casement and broke in spray upon the climbing ivy-leaves. And presently, overhead, a chamber-window opened, and a child peeped silently forth, And looked up into the vast night and at the all-trembling stars. And at the same moment, in a far far globe wheeling unseen round a certain star, a child-face peeped forth from its habitation, and looked out into the night, even in the direction of the first child; And in other globes other faces looked forth; But they all shrank back and trembled, seeing nothing but vacancy, and saying, How dark, how vast, how awful is the Night! Yet all the while it was the great Day of the universe into which they looked, Lit by a million suns. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WINSOME WEE THING by ROBERT BURNS EPITAPH ON HIMSELF by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE CONFLICT by CECIL DAY LEWIS MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 2 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ASPIRATIONS: 12 by MATHILDE BLIND |