Get Your Premium Membership

When the starry sky covers our dwelling

When the starry sky covers our dwelling, we hush for hours before its intense and gentle fire, so that we may feel a greater and more fervent stirring within us.
The great silver stars follow their courses high up in the heavens; beneath the flames and the gleams, night spreads out its depths, and the calm is so great that the ocean listens!
But what matters even the hushing of the sea, if in the brightness and immensity of space, full of invisible violence, our hearts beat so strongly that they make all the silence?

Poem by Emile Verhaeren
Biography | Poems | Best Poems | Short Poems | Quotes | Email Poem - When the starry sky covers our dwellingEmail Poem | Create an image from this poem

Poems are below...



More Poems by Emile Verhaeren

Comments, Analysis, and Meaning on When the starry sky covers our dwelling

Provide your analysis, explanation, meaning, interpretation, and comments on the poem When the starry sky covers our dwelling here.

Commenting turned off, sorry.


Book: Shattered Sighs