Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars

Oh, Silver Stars that shine on what I love,

Touch the soft hair and sparkle in the eyes,–

Send, from your calm serenity above,

Sleep to whom, sleepless, here, despairing lies.

Broken, forlorn, upon the Desert sand

That sucks these tears, and utterly abased,

Looking across the lonely, level land,

With thoughts more desolate than any waste.

Planets that shine on what I so adore,

Now thrown, the hour is late, in careless rest,

Protect that sleep, which I may watch no more,

I, the cast out, dismissed and dispossessed.

Far in the hillside camp, in slumber lies

What my worn eyes worship but never see.

Happier Stars! your myriad silver eyes

Feast on the quiet face denied to me.

Loved with a love beyond all words or sense,

Lost with a grief beyond the saltest tear,

So lovely, so removed, remote, and hence

So doubly and so desperately dear!

Stars! from your skies so purple and so calm,

That through the centuries your secrets keep,

Send to this worn-out brain some Occult Balm,

Send me, for many nights so sleepless, sleep.

And ere the sunshine of the Desert jars

My sense with sorrow and another day,

Through your soft Magic, oh, my Silver Stars!

Turn sleep to Death in some mysterious way.

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• The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Lantern Out Of Doors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Handsome Heart poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Half-way House poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Habit Of Perfection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Child Is Father To The Man poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Candle Indoors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Caged Skylark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Bugler’s First Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• The Alchemist in the City poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• Summa poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• Strike, Churl poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• St. Winefred’s Well poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• Spring poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins

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