My love is like a planet in the sky <br />Whereon a star-seer bends his reverent gaze, <br />Waiting for those bright moments when its rays <br />Flame out in beauty; then his raptured eye <br />May trace its light and shadow; he may try <br />To pluck in shreds its rainbow-tinted blaze; <br />But still unknown and vague the planet stays <br />Throned in the luminous blue, serene and high. <br />I, though I love and wonder, may not know. <br />Too lofty for me is that magic lore. <br />A sacred mystery folds evermore <br />The thoughts that make her deep eyes flash and glow, <br />The meaning of that slow smile's dazzling shine, <br />The sweet, proud lips no kisses can make mine.<br /><br />John Hay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/estrella/
