I WAS alone beside the sea upon a starry night, And not a cloud was in the sky, and not a sail in sight: Beyond the limits of the world far stretched my raptured eye, And the forests and the mountains, and nature all around, Seemed to unite in questioning, in vast and mingled sound, The billows of the ocean and the splendour of the sky. And the golden stars of heaven, in their unnumbered crowd, With harmonies ten thousand, with voices clear and loud, Replied, as low they bended down their radiant crowns of flame-- And the blue floods, that nought has power to govern or arrest, Replied, as low they bended down, the foam upon their crest-- 'The Lord, our great Creator, His glory we proclaim!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MERLIN AND THE GLEAM by ALFRED TENNYSON THE WOUND-DRESSER by WALT WHITMAN THREE FLOWERS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 11. AL-MUTAKABBIR by EDWIN ARNOLD DISGUISES by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 3. PRIESTLEY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |