English Poetry. Amy Levy. Sonnet. Эми Леви.

Amy Levy (Эми Леви)

Sonnet

Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I
Who but a little time ago was tost
High on the waves of passion and of pain,
With aching heat and wildly throbbing brain,
Who peered into the darkness, deeming vain
All things there found if but One thing were lost,
Thus calm and still and silent here should lie,
Watching and waiting, --waiting passively.

The dark has faded, and before mine eyes
Have long, grey flats expanded, dim and bare;
And through the changing guises all things wear
Inevitable Law I recognise:
Yet in my heart a hint of feeling lies
Which half a hope and half a despair.

Amy Levy’s other poems:

1. The Old Poet
2. To Vernon Lee
3. The Lost Friend
4. Ballade of an Omnibus
5. On the Wye in May

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Sonnet (“Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there”) 1820

Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) Sonnet (“Not with vain tears, when we’re beyond the sun”)

Hartley Coleridge (Хартли Кольридж) Sonnet (“If I have sinned in act, I may repent”)

Nicholas Breton (Николас Бретон) Sonnet (“The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold”)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Элис Данбар-Нельсон) Sonnet (“I had not thought of violets late”)

Wallace Stevens (Уоллес Стивенс) Sonnet (“Lo, even as I passed beside the booth”)

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