English Poetry. Amy Lowell. In a Garden. Эми Лоуэлл.

In a Garden


Gushing from the mouths of stone men
To spread at ease under the sky
In granite-lipped basins,
Where iris dabble their feet
And rustle to a passing wind,
The water fills the garden with its rushing,
In the midst of the quiet of close-clipped lawns.
Damp smell the ferns in tunnels of stone,
Where trickle and plash the fountains,
Marble fountains, yellowed with much water.
Splashing down moss-tarnished steps
It falls, the water;
And the air is throbbing with it.
With its gurgling and running.
With its leaping, and deep, cool murmur.
And I wished for night and you.
I wanted to see you in the swimming-pool,
White and shining in the silver-flecked water.
While the moon rode over the garden,
High in the arch of night,
And the scent of the lilacs was heavy with stillness.
Night, and the water, and you in your whiteness, bathing!

Amy Lowell’s other poems:

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

George Evans (Джордж Эванс) In a Garden (“Girl, with the soft grey eyes”)

Madison Cawein (Мэдисон Кавейн) In a Garden (“The pink rose drops its petals on”)

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