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قراءة كتاب 'Twixt Earth and Stars Poems
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 3
grief become Love's slave.
MY ROSE
A Rose! but what can it say,
So tender, and sweet, and dumb;
What part of my love convey,
What thrill of the joys to come?
I send it, but how shall you,
Dear heart, ever understand
That rapturous tear of dew,
It drops on your strong white hand?
Or know that my lips have pressed
Those petals until they blush,
Or feel that my heart has blessed
The flower that your touch may crush?
IF ONLY
Oh! if one could only learn not to care,
To be utterly indifferent storm or fair;
And to say there's always pain
With the joy, I don't complain,
For the sunshine draws the rain
Everywhere.
Oh! if one could only learn not to feel;
To be absolutely callous, false or real;
And to let the world go by,
With a laugh to cap its sigh,
With a jest to meet its lie,
Cold as steel.
CONFESSION
Within the portals of thy shrine
Before thy presence, dearest mine,
I kneel, beseeching thee to bless
My penitence, while I confess,
And can a saint do any less?
If I have sinned as others do,
All human hearts the wide world through
Are erring things, and then with me
My greatest wrong was loving thee,
Wilt thou condemn my constancy?
Look down, dear heart, and let thine eyes
Commend my soul to Paradise.
He little sins, who sins in this
That to obtain eternal bliss
Seeks the communion of a kiss.
SUNLIGHT ON DISTANT HILLS
(Ledbury)
But a moment since and the sun was shining
Over the hills that I see from my room.
And now the rain and the mist come driving
Out of the West, in a cloud of gloom.
Over the woods, and meadows, and gardens,
Hurries the storm like the hand of Doom.
But a moment hence and the clouds shall vanish;
Breaking and drifting and all asunder.
And lo! in their midst will the sky be lying