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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STARLIGHT, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up,' she said; and all the heavens blazed
Last Line: "but light were night didst thou not love me so."
Subject(s): Sky
First Line: Look up,' she said; and all the heavens blazed
Last Line: "but light were night didst thou not love me so."
Subject(s): Sky
"Look up," she said; and all the heavens blazed
With countless myriads of quiet stars,
Whereon a moment silently he gazed,
And drank that peace no trouble ever mars.
Then looking down into her face upturned,
Two other stars that did outshine the rest
Upward to him with such soft splendor yearned
That all her secret was at once confessed.
Then he with kisses did put out their light,
And said, "O strange, but more, dear love, to me
Are thy pure eyes than all the stars of night
That shine in heaven everlastingly!
Night still is night, with every star aglow;
But light were night didst thou not love me so."
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