| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | A Book of Sonnets | | The Galaxy |
| | | TORRENT of light and river of the air, | |
| Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen | |
| Like gold and silver sands in some ravine | |
| Where mountain streams have left their channels bare! | |
| The Spaniard sees in thee the pathway, where | 5 |
| His patron saint descended in the sheen | |
| Of his celestial armor, on serene | |
| And quiet nights, when all the heavens were fair. | |
| Not this I see, nor yet the ancient fable | |
| Of Phaeton’s wild course, that scorched the skies | 10 |
| Where’er the hoofs of his hot coursers trod; | |
| But the white drift of worlds o’er chasms of sable, | |
| The star-dust, that is whirled aloft and flies | |
| From the invisible chariot-wheels of God. | | | | |
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