All, that I know
   Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
   (Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
   Now a dart of blue;
Till my friends have said
   They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
   They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
   Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
 

Poems by This Author

Life in a Love by Robert Browning
Escape me?
Love in a Life by Robert Browning
Room after room
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning
The gray sea and the long black land
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
Grow old along with me!
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning
Gr-r-r--there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Song from Paracelsus by Robert Browning
Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning
I wonder do you feel to-day
Wanting is — What? by Robert Browning
Wanting is -- what