<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386512" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stars</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! why, because the dazzling sun<br>Restored our Earth to joy,<br>Have you departed, every one,<br>And left a desert sky? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All through the night, your glorious eyes<br>Were gazing down in mine,<br>And, with a full heart's thankful sighs,<br>I blessed that watch divine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was at peace, and drank your beams<br>As they were life to me;<br>And revelled in my changeful dreams,<br>Like petrel on the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thought followed thought, star followed star<br>Through boundless regions on;<br>While one sweet influence, near and far,<br>Thrilled through, and proved us one! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why did the morning dawn to break<br>So great, so pure a spell;<br>And scorch with fire the tranquil cheek,<br>Where your cool radiance fell? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blood-red, he rose, and arrow-straight,<br>His fierce beams struck my brow;<br>The soul of nature sprang, elate,<br>But mine sank sad and low. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My lids closed down, yet through their veil<br>I saw him, blazinig, still,<br>And steep in gold the misty dale,<br>And flash upon the hill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I turned me to the pillow, then,<br>To call back night, and see<br>Your words of solemn light, again,<br>Throb with my heart, and me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It would not do - the pillow glowed,<br>And glowed both roof and floor;<br>And birds sang loudly in the wood,<br>And fresh winds shook the door; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The curtains waved, the wakened flies<br>Were murmuring round my room,<br>Imprisoned there, till I should rise,<br>And give them leave to roam. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O stars, and dreams, and gentle night;<br>O night and stars, return!<br>And hide me from the hostile light<br>That does not warm, but burn; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That drains the blood of suffering men;<br>Drinks tears, instead of dew;<br>Let me sleep through his blinding reign,<br>And only wake with you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emily+Jane+Bront%C3%AB">Emily Jane Brontë</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386512" data-title="Stars de Emily Jane Brontë" data-description="Ah! why, because the dazzling sun Restored our Earth to joy, Have you departed, every one, And left a desert sky? All through the night, your glorious eyes Were gazing down in mine, And, with a full heart's thankful sighs, I blessed that watch d..."></div> </div> </div>

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