| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Winter Night | | By Charles Heavysege (1816–1876) |
| | | THE STARS are glittering in the frosty sky, | |
| Numerous as pebbles on a broad sea-coast; | |
| While o’er the vault the cloud-like galaxy | |
| Has marshalled its innumerable host. | |
| Alive all heaven seems; with wondrous glow | 5 |
| Tenfold refulgent every star appears; | |
| As if some wide, celestial gale did blow, | |
| And thrice illume the ever-kindled spheres. | |
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| Orbs, with glad orbs rejoicing, burning, beam, | |
| Ray-crowned, with lambent lustre in their zones; | 10 |
| Till o’er the blue, bespangled spaces seem | |
| Angels and great archangels on their thrones; | |
| A host divine, whose eyes are sparkling gems, | |
| And forms more bright than diamond diadems. | | | | |
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