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Browning's Shorter Poems

MY STAR°

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MY STAR°

All that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw °4 (Like the angled spar°) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! 10Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:[page 41] °11They must solace themselves with the Saturn° above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

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