OH, earth! that liest still to-night Beneath the starlit skies, How splendid dost thou loom and bright To planetary eyes! But if some storm-cloud, vast and dark, Should hide thee from the day; If through blind night no faintest spark Should force its feeble way, No other would thy face appear, Than on this cloudless sky, Though all the world should quake with fear, Though all our race should die. Great Universe! too vast thou art, Too changeless and too far, Dull grows the brain and chill the heart Before the nearest star. Oh, kindly earth! upon thy breast For ever let me lie, Wrapt round with thy eternal rest, But gazing on the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SOCIOLOGY OF TOYOTAS AND JADE CHRYSANTHEMUMS by HAYDEN CARRUTH SAVORING THE PAST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON BEFORE DAWN; SONNET by AMY LOWELL |