Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HARBOUR STARS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON


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HARBOUR STARS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer stars are great and low and still
Last Line: The roadstead wind that calls us out once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Stars; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


THE summer stars are great and low and still
To men in ships safe-anchored for the night;
As near they seem as any riding-light
Run up aloft where air is gathering chill
And damp with night-fog. Clear they burn, that made
Safe passage in dark waters. Slow they rise,
Familiarly, and fair to knowing eyes
That watch them hours on end until they fade.
Now in the night a deep tranquillity
Takes all the quiet water and the shore;
And if the stars were not so large and near,
And showed no glimmering channel back to sea,
We might sleep dreamless, who are tuned to hear
The roadstead wind that calls us out once more.





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