Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Star
1 All that I know
2 Of a certain star,
3 Is, it can throw
4 (Like the angled spar)
5 Now a dart of red,
6 Now a dart of blue,
7 Till my friends have said
8 They would fain see, too,
9My star that dartles the red and the blue!
10Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
11 They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
12What matter to me if their star is a world?
13 Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: Robert Browning, Men and Women, 2 vols. (1855.) Rev. 1863.
First publication date:
1855
RPO poem editor: J. D. Robins
RP edition: 2RP 2.439.
Recent editing: 2:2001/12/13
Rhyme: ababcdcdd efef
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