English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 6. THE infinite shining heavens. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон.

Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон)

Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 6. THE infinite shining heavens

THE infinite shining heavens
Rose and I saw in the night
Uncountable angel stars
Showering sorrow and light.

I saw them distant as heaven,
Dumb and shining and dead,
And the idle stars of the night
Were dearer to me than bread.

Night after night in my sorrow
The stars stood over the sea,
Till lo! I looked in the dusk
And a star had come down to me.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s other poems:

1. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 13. Mater Triumphans
2. About the Sheltered Garden Ground
3. De Ligurra
4. Voluntary
5. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 32. In Memoriam E. H.

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