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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLIND ASTRONOMER, by THOMAS ASA First Line: The starry train wend on, their sight unseen Last Line: Shall mark my way to god's eternity. Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Stars; Galileo Galilei | |||
The starry train wend on, their sight unseen By mortal eyes once nightly turned to them. Oh days of utter darkness without hope! Not of the blackness of the shadowed skies -- Not of cavernous depths of underworlds, Nor fathomless deeps of somber waters, But this: the darkness of these stricken eyes That rove in futile, maddening despair, By ruthless veils of mortal finitude Shut off from the visible world of men. O Power divine, just is Thy sacrament! Nature, outraged, has sealed forevermore The sacred light of heaven from these eyes, That nightly upraised in mute communion With Thy great works, -- Thy glory infinite! O moon, thou full-orbed splendor of the sky! Where art thou in thy pristine loveliness? Hesperus, thou steadfast, shining lamp of night! Whose beauty hath enthralled earth, sky and sea. The fair Pleiades, the joyous Seven; -- Saturn, Neptune, and godlike Jupiter! And all the mighty kindred of the spheres; These have I left behind, in blindness sealed. Their ceaseless light, on earth forever loved, Shall mark my way to God's eternity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE CROWN OF THORNS by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS GALILEO BEFORE THE INQUISITION by MARGARET JUNKIN I REMEMBER GALILEO by GERALD STERN AGE OF DISCOVERY by DEAN YOUNG WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 4. GALILEO by ALFRED NOYES NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' by MARIANNE MOORE THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862] by GEORGE M. BAKER A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR RELIGION AND DOCTRINE by JOHN MILTON HAY |
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