[ { "title": "The Star", "author": "Ann Taylor", "lines": [ "Twinkle, twinkle, little star,", "How I wonder what you are !", "Up above the world so high,", "Like a diamond in the sky.", "", "When the blazing sun is gone,", "When he nothing shines upon,", "Then you show your little light,", "Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.", "", "Then the trav'ller in the dark,", "Thanks you for your tiny spark,", "He could not see which way to go,", "If you did not twinkle so.", "", "In the dark blue sky you keep,", "And often thro' my curtains peep,", "For you never shut your eye,", "Till the sun is in the sky.", "", "'Tis your bright and tiny spark,", "Lights the trav'ller in the dark :", "Tho' I know not what you are,", "Twinkle, twinkle, little star." ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "Before The Paling Of The Stars", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "lines": [ "Before the winter morn,", "Before the earliest cock crow,", "Jesus Christ was born:", "Born in a stable,", "Cradled in a manger,", "In the world his hands had made", "Born a stranger.", "", "Priest and king lay fast asleep", "In Jerusalem;", "Young and old lay fast asleep", "In crowded Bethlehem;", "Saint and angel, ox and ass,", "Kept a watch together", "Before the Christmas daybreak", "In the winter weather.", "", "Jesus on his mother's breast", "In the stable cold,", "Spotless lamb of God was he,", "Shepherd of the fold:", "Let us kneel with Mary maid,", "With Joseph bent and hoary,", "With saint and angel, ox and ass,", "To hail the King of Glory." ], "linecount": "23" }, { "title": "Trusty as the stars", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Trusty as the stars", "Who quit their shining working", "Prompt as when I lit them", "In Genesis' new house,", "Durable as dawn", "Whose antiquated blossom", "Makes a world's suspense", "Perish and rejoice." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "The Stars are old, that stood for me --", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "The Stars are old, that stood for me --", "The West a little worn --", "Yet newer glows the only Gold", "I ever cared to earn --", "", "Presuming on that lone result", "Her infinite disdain", "But vanquished her with my defeat", "'Twas Victory was slain." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "His Heart was darker than the starless night", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "His Heart was darker than the starless night", "For that there is a morn", "But in this black Receptacle", "Can be no Bode of Dawn" ], "linecount": "4" }, { "title": "As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies", "As the Vulture teased", "Forces the Broods in lonely Valleys", "As the Tiger eased", "", "By but a Crumb of Blood, fasts Scarlet", "Till he meet a Man", "Dainty adorned with Veins and Tissues", "And partakes -- his Tongue", "", "Cooled by the Morsel for a moment", "Grows a fiercer thing", "Till he esteem his Dates and Cocoa", "A Nutrition mean", "", "I, of a finer Famine", "Deem my Supper dry", "For but a Berry of Domingo", "And a Torrid Eye." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "The Starlight Night", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!", " O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!", " The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!", "Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!", "The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!", " Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!", " Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!—", "Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.", "Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, aims, vows.", "Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!", " Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!", "These are indeed the barn; withindoors house", "The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse", " Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "The Star", "author": "Henry Vaughan", "lines": [ "1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below", "2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow,", "3 And wind and curl, and wink and smile,", "4 Shifting thy gate and guile;", "", "5 Though thy close commerce nought at all imbars", "6 My present search, for eagles eye not stars,", "7 And still the lesser by the best", "8 And highest good is blest;", "", "9 Yet, seeing all things that subsist and be,", "10 Have their commissions from divinity,", "11 And teach us duty, I will see", "12 What man may learn from thee.", "", "13 First, I am sure, the subject so respected", "14 Is well dispos'd, for bodies once infected,", "15 Deprav'd, or dead, can have with thee", "16 No hold, nor sympathy.", "", "17 Next, there's in it a restless, pure desire", "18 And longing for thy bright and vital fire,", "19 Desire that never will be quench'd,", "20 Nor can be writh'd, nor wrench'd.", "", "21 These are the magnets which so strongly move", "22 And work all night upon thy light and love,", "23 As beauteous shapes, we know not why,", "24 Command and guide the eye.", "", "25 For where desire, celestial, pure desire", "26 Hath taken root, and grows, and doth not tire,", "27 There God a commerce states, and sheds", "28 His secret on their heads.", "", "29 This is the heart he craves, and who so will", "30 But give it him, and grudge not, he shall feel", "31 That God is true, as herbs unseen", "32 Put on their youth and green." ], "linecount": "32" }, { "title": "Places among the stars", "author": "Stephen Crane", "lines": [ "Places among the stars,", "Soft gardens near the sun,", "Keep your distant beauty;", "Shed no beams upon my weak heart.", "Since she is here", "In a place of blackness,", "Not your golden days", "Nor your silver nights", "Can call me to you.", "Since she is here", "In a place of blackness,", "Here I stay and wait" ], "linecount": "12" }, { "title": "Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;", "And yet methinks I have astronomy,", "But not to tell of good or evil luck,", "Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;", "Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,", "Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,", "Or say with princes if it shall go well", "By oft predict that I in heaven find:", "But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,", "And constant stars in them I read such art", "As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,", "If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';", " Or else of thee this I prognosticate:", " 'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.'" ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "On the Star of \"the Legion of Honour.\"", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Star of the brave!--whose beam hath shed", "Such glory o'er the quick and dead--", "Thou radiant and adored deceit!", "Which millions rushed in arms to greet,--", "Wild meteor of immortal birth!", "Why rise in Heaven to set on Earth?", "", "Souls of slain heroes formed thy rays;", "Eternity flashed through thy blaze;", "The music of thy martial sphere", "Was fame on high and honour here;", "And thy light broke on human eyes,", "Like a Volcano of the skies.", "", "Like lava rolled thy stream of blood,", "And swept down empires with its flood;", "Earth rocked beneath thee to her base,", "As thou didst lighten through all space;", "And the shorn Sun grew dim in air,", "And set while thou wert dwelling there.", "", "Before thee rose, and with thee grew,", "A rainbow of the loveliest hue", "Of three bright colours, each divine,", "And fit for that celestial sign;", "For Freedom's hand had blended them,", "Like tints in an immortal gem.", "", "One tint was of the sunbeam's dyes;", "One, the blue depth of Seraph's eyes;", "One, the pure Spirit's veil of white", "Had robed in radiance of its light:", "The three so mingled did beseem", "The texture of a heavenly dream.", "", "Star of the brave! thy ray is pale,", "And darkness must again prevail!", "But, oh thou Rainbow of the free!", "Our tears and blood must flow for thee.", "When thy bright promise fades away,", "Our life is but a load of clay.", "", "And Freedom hallows with her tread", "The silent cities of the dead;", "For beautiful in death are they", "Who proudly fall in her array;", "And soon, oh, Goddess! may we be", "For evermore with them or thee!" ], "linecount": "42" } ]