Gold-Fish
The stars are like gold-fish in a deep blue bowl,
Swimming round and round the centuries.
Sometimes one dies of the hot summer night;
I watch it falling—
Fading—
And I watch the others,
Floating in their blue bowl,
Eternally golden,
Immortally indifferent.
Credit
From A Canopic Jar (E. P. Dutton & Company, 1921) by Leonora Speyer. Copyright © 1921 by E. P. Dutton & Company. This poem is in the public domain.
Author
Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer was born in Washington, D.C., in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her poetry collection Fiddler’s Farewell (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926)
Date Published
01/01/1921