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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST STARS, by ISABELLE A. L. KFOURY
First Line: It is the glory of ephemeral things
Last Line: An empty shell that may have held a star.
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: It is the glory of ephemeral things
Last Line: An empty shell that may have held a star.
Subject(s): Mortality
It is the glory of ephemeral things,
That oftentimes have made a bitter heart
A note of music lost upon the wind,
A little moth with soft, white crippled wings.
Its lonely beauty and its sorrows are
A tragedy I cannot bear to see,
The echoes of a long, lost symphony --
An empty shell that may have held a star.
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