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Famous Starshine Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Starshine poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous starshine poems. These examples illustrate what a famous starshine poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...sleeping 
By stars in the height, 
They rest in your keeping, 
O wonderful night. 
When night doth her glories 
Of starshine unfold, 
'Tis then that the stories 
Of bush-land are told. 

Unnumbered I told them 
In memories bright, 
But who could unfold them, 
Or read them aright? 
Beyond all denials 
The stars in their glories, 
The breeze in the myalls, 
Are part of these stories. 

The waving of grasses, 
The song of the river 
That sings as it passes 
For ever...Read more of this...



by Sassoon, Siegfried
...away beside the fire: 
For death has made me wise and bitter and strong;
And I am rich in all that I have lost. 
O starshine on the fields of long-ago, 
Bring me the darkness and the nightingale; 
Dim wealds of vanished summer, peace of home, 
And silence; and the faces of my friends....Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...n the shining west
She has dropped her flowers on the sunset meadow,
We turn away from our witching quest
To the kindly starshine and gathering shadow; 
Filled to the lips of our souls are we 
With the beauty given so lavishly,
And hand in hand with the night we come 
Back to the light and the hearth of home....Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...eath close-linked, like loving brothers stand.

But how diverse! Our Will had gold and gear,
Chattels and land, the starshine of success;
The bleak Castilian fought with casque and spear,
Passing his life in prisons - more or less.
The Bard of Avon was accounted rich;
Cervantes often bedded in a ditch.

Yet when I slough this flesh, if I could meet
By sweet, fantastic fate one of these two,
In languorous Elysian retreat,
Which would I choose? Fair reader, which wo...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...grandson’s stockings. 

It is I too, the sleepless widow, looking out on the winter midnight,
I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth. 

A shroud I see, and I am the shroud—I wrap a body, and lie in the coffin, 
It is dark here under ground—it is not evil or pain here—it is blank here, for
 reasons. 

It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy, 
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enou...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...leeping 
By stars in the height, 
They rest in your keeping, 
Oh, wonderful night. 
When night doth her glories 
Of starshine unfold, 
’Tis then that the stories 
Of bush-land are told. 

Unnumbered I hold them 
In memories bright, 
But who could unfold them, 
Or read them aright? 
Beyond all denials 
The stars in their glories 
The breeze in the myalls 
Are part of these stories. 

The waving of grasses, 
The song of the river 
That sings as it passes 
For ever a...Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...ing
Is sweeter than violets in April grasses;
Though your eyes are fast shut I can see their blue,
Splendid and soft as starshine in heaven,
With all the joyance and wisdom given
From the many souls who have stanchly striven
Through the dead years to be strong and true. 

Those fine little feet in my worn hands holden . . . 
Where will they tread ?
Valleys of shadow or heights dawn-red?
And those silken fingers, O, wee, white son,
What valorous deeds shall by ...Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...Westering slopes of clover sod, 
Orchard lands where bloom and blow 
Trees he planted long ago. 

Make it where the starshine dim 
May be always close to him, 
And the sunrise glory spread 
Lavishly around his bed. 
And the dewy grasses creep 
Tenderly above his sleep. 

Since these things to him were dear 
Through full many a well-spent year, 
It is surely meet their grace 
Should be on his resting-place, 
And the murmur of the sea 
Be his dirge eternally....Read more of this...

by Benet, Stephen Vincent
...ping, immortal, untamed, 
And, as we ended, 
She blew me a kiss from her hand like a drifting white blossom -- 
And the starshine was gone; and she fled like a bird up the stair. 

Underneath the window a peacock screams, 
And claws click, scrape 
Like little lacquered boots on the rough stone. 

Oh the long fantasy of the kiss; the ceaseless hunger, ceaselessly, divinely appeased! 
The aching presence of the beloved's beauty! 
The wisdom, the incense, the brightness!...Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...rs in the moon's wizardry,
While the fates, wearied, sleep. 

The viewless spirit of the wind will sing
In the soft starshine by the reedy mere,
The elfin harps of hemlock boughs will ring
Fitfully far and near;
The fields will yield their trove of spice and musk,
And balsam from the glens of pine will fall,
Till twilight weaves its tangled shadows all
In one dim web of dusk. 

Let us put tears and memories away,
While the fates sleep time stops for revelry;
Let us lo...Read more of this...

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