A MERRY-GO-ROUND is in the sky That's turning night and day, Fast as a dream it whirls on high So bright we cannot see it fly, All formed of light's pure ray,— Hark, little rogue, I say. Listen, it takes the stars along That up in heaven gleam. Through space it bears them swift and strong, And as it goes it makes a song So delicate we only seem To hear the music in a dream. In dreams we hear it from afar, From heaven with brightness crowned. How glad, you rogue, your dreams then are. And we turn with it on a star; Never too fast, we've found, Goes the big merry-go-round! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CREDO by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by HERMAN MELVILLE LOVE'S JUSTIFICATION by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI THE DISCOVERY; SONNET by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE SONNET FOR A PICTURE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET by ARISTOPHANES |