Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINTER NIGHT, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE


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First Line: The stars are glittering in the frosty night
Last Line: And forms more bright than diamond diadems.
Variant Title(s): The Winter Galaxy
Subject(s): Winter


The stars are glittering in the frosty sky,
Frequent as pebbles on a broad sea-coast;
And o'er the vault the cloud-like galaxy
Has marshalled its innumerable host.
Alive all heaven seems! with wondrous glow
Tenfold refulgent every star appears,
As if some wide, celestial gale did blow,
And thrice illume the ever-kindled spheres.
Orbs, with glad orbs rejoicing, burning, beam,
Ray-crowned, with lambent lustre in their zones,
Till o'er the blue, bespangled spaces seem
Angels and great archangels on their thrones;
A host divine, whose eyes are sparkling gems,
And forms more bright than diamond diadems.





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