Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STARS ON THE WATER, by THOMAS WALSH


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STARS ON THE WATER, by                    
First Line: Stars on the water, - on my soul, thine eyes
Last Line: To keep thy light unclouded through the days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Bedtime


STARS on the water,—on my soul, thine eyes;
Thus for no sunlight shall I ask, nor dreams
The moon sends floating down by phantom streams,
If to the calm that on my spirit lies
Thy starlight come interpreting the skies.
Yea, even at noontide have I caught far themes
Celestial glinting on me like the beams
To which by night the troubled surge replies.

Stars on the water, there is twilight now
Upon my valleys, and the soft winds cease
And in my heart, belovéd, there is peace!
Lo, 'tis the trysting hour; unto thy gaze
I lift the mirror of my soul and vow
To keep thy light unclouded through the days.





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