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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: See how her body pants and glows
Last Line: But who can read the unborn years?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Evening Star
First Line: See how her body pants and glows
Last Line: But who can read the unborn years?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Evening Star
See how her body pants and glows,
See how she shakes her silver wings!
Ten thousand stars, and more, are mute,
And she, and she alone, that sings.
Ten thousand stars, and more, are mute,
All listening in the quiet sky,
While that bright star sings wildly there
And happy they hear more than I.
Bring me my strange invention now,
That I may sit at home in ease
And have fresh music brought by air
From towns beyond the curly seas.
In vain, in vain; the power to hear
The music of those heavenly spheres
Is but a wild, fantastic dream --
But who can read the unborn years?
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