What power disbands the Northern Lights After their steely play? The watcher feels a creeping awe Of Nature's sway, As when appearing, He marked their flashed uprearing In the cold gloom -- Retreatings and advancings, (Like dallyings of doom), Transitions and enhancings, And bloody ray. The phantom-host has failed quite, Splendor and Terror gone -- Portent or promise -- and gives way To pale, meek Dawn; The coming, going, Alike in wonder showing -- Alike the God, Decreeing and commanding The million blades that glowed, The muster and disbanding -- Midnight and Morn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PATH-FLOWER by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN ACCIDENT IN ART by RICHARD HOVEY ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 5. AGAINST SUSPICION by MARK AKENSIDE THE THINKER'S VISION by WILLIAM ROSE BENET PSALME 137 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |