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Poem by Albert Laighton


The Mystery


I saw a wonderful light —
Watching the midnight sky —
Leap suddenly into the voiceless dark,
And as suddenly die.

Was it a golden lance
Into the silence hurled
By the Spirit of Air? A new-born star,
Or the wreck of a world?



Albert Laighton


Albert Laighton's other poems:
  1. On a Lock of Farragut’s Hair
  2. The Birth of Light
  3. Ebb and Flow
  4. Frost-Work
  5. The Summer Shower


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Gilbert Chesterton The Mystery ("If sunset clouds could grow on trees")
  • Edward Sill The Mystery ("I NEVER know why 't is I love thee so")
  • Paul Dunbar The Mystery ("I was not; now I am--a few days hence")
  • Sara Teasdale The Mystery ("Your eyes drink of me")

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