WHEN along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker round me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be. Nay, though the pole-star Is blown out like a candle, And all the heavens are wandering in disarray, Yet when pleiads of people are Deployed around me, and I see The street's long outstretched Milky Way, When people flicker down the pavement, I forget my bereavement. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CENTER OF GRAVITY by DAVID IGNATOW BUT NOT TO ME by SARA TEASDALE A COUNTRY BURIAL by EMILY DICKINSON THE SECRET OF THE SEA by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156 by PETRARCH THE HOUSE ON THE HILL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 2. SHADOW MARCH by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |