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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED
First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base
Last Line: The spirits pass?
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean
First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base
Last Line: The spirits pass?
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean
Across the harbor, up the mountain's base
And down the curving shore, the far lights burn.
By every gleam the hidden road I trace
Through bend and turn.
Due westward where the ridges dip and rise
Are scattered farms, each one a glimmering spark.
The village lights seem clustering fireflies
Lost in the dark.
O'erhead in fields vast as eternity,
Through the calm night celestial beacons glow.
Speak, brooding Ocean; their bright mystery
Do you not know?
Are they the lights of many a heavenly town
Shining upon us through the streets of glass;
Or do they mark the roads where up and down
The spirits pass?
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