Star Song / Gladys Cromwell

Star Song  (1918)  by Gladys Cromwell

from Poetry, March 1918

Merope (23 Tau) in Pleiades (M45). Photo by Henryk Kowalewski. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Star Song

There are twisted roots that grow
Even from a fragile white anemone.
But a star has no roots; to and fro
It floats in the light of the sky, like a water-lily,
And fades on the blue flood of day.
 
A star has no roots to hold it,
No living lonely entity to lose.
Floods of dim radiance fold it;
Night and day their silent aura transfuse;

But no change a star can bruise.

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A star is adrift and free.
When day comes, it floats into space and complies;
Like a spirit quietly,
Like a spirit, amazed in a wider paradise
At mortal tears and sighs.
 

This poem is in the public domain