| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | The Seaside and the Fireside | By the Seaside.
Chrysaor |
| | | | In the first edition of The Seaside and the Fireside this poem bore the title of The Evening Star. |
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JUST above yon sandy bar, | |
| As the day grows fainter and dimmer, | |
| Lonely and lovely, a single star | |
| Lights the air with a dusky glimmer. | |
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| Into the ocean faint and far | 5 |
| Falls the trail of its golden splendor, | |
| And the gleam of that single star | |
| Is ever refulgent, soft, and tender. | |
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| Chrysaor, rising out of the sea, | |
| Showed thus glorious and thus emulous, | 10 |
| Leaving the arms of Callirrhoë, | |
| Forever tender, soft, and tremulous. | |
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| Thus o’er the ocean faint and far | |
| Trailed the gleam of his falchion brightly; | |
| Is it a God, or is it a star | 15 |
| That, entranced, I gaze on nightly! | | | |
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