Find quotes from this poem, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Love Quotes
And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores (lines 3-6)
Loyalty Quotes
Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art— (line 1)
Isolation Quotes
Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night (lines 1-2)
Time Quotes
Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art— (line 1)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art— (line 1)