English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. To My Mother. Арчибальд Лемпман.

Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман)

To My Mother

Mother, to whose valiant will,
  Battling long ago,
What the heaping years fulfil,
  Light and song, I owe;
Send my little book a-field,
  Fronting praise or blame
With the shining flag and shield
  Of your name.

Archibald Lampman’s other poems:

1. Favorites of Pan
2. An October Sunset
3. The Frogs
4. The Return of the Year
5. At the Ferry

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

Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) To My Mother (“To-day’s your natal day”)

Edwin Arnold (Эдвин Арнольд) To My Mother (“The crimson sun is sinking”)

Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) To My Mother (“Unuttered songs fly round my thoughts like birds”)

Felicia Hemans (Фелиция Хеманз) To My Mother (“IF e’er for human bliss or woe”)

Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) To My Mother (“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above”)

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