Allegro brillante The sky immense, bejewelled with rain of stars, Hangs over us: The stars like a sudden explosion powder the zenith With green and gold; North-east, south-west the Milky Way's pale streamers Flash past in flame; The sky is a swirling cataract Of fire, on high. Over us the sky up to the zenith Palpitates with tense glitter: About our keel the foam bubbles and curdles In phosphorescent joy. Flame boils up to meet down-rushing flame In the blue stillness. Aloft a single orange meteor Crashes down the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS IN PRAISE OF ASTRAEA by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT INLAND by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SONGS OF TRAVEL: 26. IF THIS WERE FAITH by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HIS ALLY by WILLIAM ROSE BENET ON THE PORTRAIT OF A COLONEL; G.H.H. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO A LADY FOR A NOSEGAY by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD RYE BREAD by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |