Explore "Nuances of a Theme by Williams" by Wallace Stevens on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
_It's a strange courage / you give me, ancient star: _
_Shine alone in the sunrise / toward which you lend no part! _
I: Shine alone, shine nakedly, shine like bronze, / that reflects neither my face nor any inner part / of my being, shine like fire, that mirrors nothing.
II: Lend no part to any humanity that suffuses you in its own light. / Be not chimera of morning, / Half-man, half-star. / Be not an intelligence, / Like a widow's bird / Or an old horse.