OVER the murmurous choral of dim waves
The constellations glow against the soft
Ethereal dusk, -forever fair, aloft,
Serene, while man climbs painfully from caves
To cities, clamorous cities, life that raves
Like surf against the rocks. It is not oft
Our cities glimpse the stars, their luster scoffed
Away by low, hard glitter that outbraves
Night's blessing of the dark. But here upon
Mid-ocean, all whose muffled voices ring
A rapture lost to our vexed human wills,
We see the primal radiance that shone
On chaos, -see the young God shepherding
His gleaming flocks on the empurpled hills.
Starlight At Sea
Katharine Lee Bates
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Poem topics: away, dark, god, life, lost, night, ocean, forever, rapture, human, young, hard, soft, glimpse, chaos, ethereal, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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