Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POLAR STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star has left the kindling sky Last Line: My heart to look for you. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Stars | ||||||||
This star sinks below the horizon in certain latitudes. I watched it sink lower and lower every night, till at last it disappeared. A star has left the kindling sky -- A lovely northern light -- How many planets are on high, But that has left the night! I miss its bright familiar face; It was a friend to me, Associate with my native place And those beyond the sea. It rose upon our English sky, Shone o'er our English land, And brought back many a loving eye And many a gentle hand. It seem'd to answer to my thought, It called the past to mind, And with its welcome presence brought All I had left behind. The voyage, it lights no longer, ends Soon on a foreign shore; How can I but recall the friends Whom I may see no more? Fresh from the pain it was to part -- How could I bear the pain? Yet strong the omen in my heart That says -- We meet again. Meet with a deeper, dearer love; For absence shows the worth Of all from which we then remove, Friends, home, and native earth. Thou lovely polar star! mine eyes Still turned the first on thee, Till I have felt a sad surprise That none look'd up with me. But thou hast sunk below the wave, Thy radiant place unknown; I seem to stand beside a grave, And stand by it alone. Farewell! -- ah, would to me were given A power upon thy light, What words upon our English heaven Thy loving rays should write! Kind messages of love and hope Upon thy rays should be; Thy shining orbit would have scope Scarcely enough for me. Oh, fancy, vain as it is fond, And little needed too; My friends! I need not look beyond My heart to look for you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HYMN TO THE STARS by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT by JAMES GALVIN CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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