Mirage

Is it a will-o’-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking,

That our horizon wears so strange a hue?

Is it but one more dream, or are we waking

To find that dreams, at last, are coming true?

Aye, surely, in that golden glimmer streaking

The cloudy sky-line of the life of man

We see the blessed day he has been seeking

In all directions since the world began.

Sign to each struggling and exhausted nation

Of hope fulfilled, redemption and release;

Sign of the end of needless tribulation,

And the beginning of the reign of Peace.

Country with country, brother with his brother,

Content to share, and not to grab and steal;

Ceasing the wild-beast battle, each with other,

To work in concert for the common weal.

No class-strife more, neighbour with differing neighbour;

No waste or want, to breed the plague or crime;

No soul-debasing pomp and sordid labour,

No wars, no famines, in the coming time!

But swords of slaughter-valour and brains and money-

Turned into ploughshares for the lands redeemed,

To fill men’s homes, as full as hives of honey,

With wealth unknown and happiness undreamed.

Great Art no more the plaything of the idle,

But nurse and minister to every need;

Nature no longer cowed with bit and bridle;

Conscience enfranchised and Religion freed.

All round our darksome isle the tide encroaches,

Distant and dim as yet, but spreading fast.

The reign of Love and Liberty approaches!

The heirs are coming to their own at last!

Hark! What was that? The vanquished devil howling,

With guns and bombs, for brother devil’s blood?

The primal savage out again-befouling

All this fair promise with his primal mud?

Alas! So soon to see our lovely morning

Back in the hopeless night whence it arose,

And have no time to wait another dawning!

O Lord, how long-how long . . . . . . . .

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Poems in English 

• A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Song poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• The AntiWorlds poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Russian-American Romance poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Modern Nature poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Her Story poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Arrow through the bellybutton poem by Poetry Slave
• In shadows of night by Poetry Slave
• The Snake by Poetry Slave
• 永遠 by André Rodriguez
• Forever by André Rodriguez
• 歐盟 by André Rostant
• Storm poem – André Rostant poems by André Rostant

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