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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOOK DOWN, YOU WATCHERS, by MARGARET WITTER FULLER First Line: You watchers of the stars in the clear night Last Line: And die, not seeing one retreating bar. | |||
You watchers of the stars in the clear night, You who have marked and weighed their constant pace, And nightly tell the instant and the place Where each will reappear or pass from sight; Look down, you watchers -- scan the timeless fight By finite beings of a fleeting race To track eternity, to transcend space, Transcend disease, transcend the source of light. It is no sight less earthly than of star To see a mortal man, regardless death, Regardless multitudes without a dream, Fight on to push the flicker of a gleam, Fight to resolve the essence of a breath And die, not seeing one retreating bar. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIRED by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE ICE-CREAM SANDWICH by KAREN SWENSON TO AGE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE NIGHT COURT by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL THE LOST WAR-SLOOP by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR BLESSING THE LIGHTS by ALTER ABELSON |
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