English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. Life and Death. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.

Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт)

Life and Death

I THOUGHT of death beside the lonely sea
That went beyond the limit of my sight,
Seeming the image of his mastery,
The semblance of his huge and gloomy might.

But firm beneath the sea went the great earth,        
With sober bulk and adamantine hold,
The water but a mantle for her girth,
That played about her splendor fold on fold.

And life seemed like this dear familiar shore
That stretched from the wet sand’s last wavy crease,        
Beneath the sea’s remote and sombre roar,
To inland stillness and the wilds of peace.

Death seems triumphant only here and there;
Life is the sovereign presence everywhere.

Duncan Campbell Scott’s other poems:

1. The Voice and the Dusk
2. Rapids at Night
3. The Sea by the Wood
4. The Harvest
5. The Height of Land

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

William Davenant (Уильям Давенант) Life and Death (“Frail Life! in Which, Through Mists of Human Breath”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Life and Death (“Three days agone, and she was here”) 1872

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