BRIGHT ball of flame that through the gloom of even Silently takest thine ethereal way, And with surpassing glory dimm'st each ray Twinkling amid the dark blue depths of Heaven, -- Unlike the fire thou bearest, soon shalt thou Fade like a meteor in surrounding gloom, Whilst that unquenchable is doomed to glow A watch-light by the patriot's lonely tomb; A ray of courage to the oppressed and poor; A spark, though gleaming on the hovel's hearth, Which through the tyrant's gilded domes shall roar; A beacon in the darkness of the Earth; A sun which, o'er the renovated scene, Shall dart like Truth where Falsehood yet has been. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ON MUSIC by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR MEDITATIONS OF A HINDU [OR, HINDOO] PRINCE [AND SKEPTIC] by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE HOLY GRAIL by ALFRED TENNYSON THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON IT IS ENOUGH by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS ON THE BACKWARDNESS OF THE SPRING 1771 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |