English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Now. Дилан Томас.

Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас)

Now

Now
Say nay,
Man dry man,
Dry lover mine
The deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor,
Should he, for centre sake, hop in the dust,
Forsake, the fool, the hardiness of anger.

Now
Say nay,
Sir no say,
Death to the yes,
the yes to death, the yesman and the answer,
Should he who split his children with a cure
Have brotherless his sister on the handsaw.

Now
Say nay,
No say sir
Yea the dead stir,
And this, nor this, is shade, the landed crow,
He lying low with ruin in his ear,
The cockrel's tide upcasting from the fire.

Now
Say nay,
So star fall,
So the ball fail,
So solve the mystic sun, the wife of light,
The sun that leaps on petals through a nought,
the come-a-cropper rider of the flower.

Now
Say nay
A fig for
The seal of fire,
Death hairy-heeled and the tapped ghost in wood,
We make me mystic as the arm of air,
The two-a-vein, the foreskin, and the cloud.

Dylan Thomas’s other poems:

1. The Seed-At-Zero
2. On No Work of Words
3. Ears in the Turrets Hear
4. All That I Owe the Fellows of the Grave
5. When, Like a Running Grave

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

Charles Mackay (Чарльз Маккей) Now (“The venerable Past — is past”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Now (“I leave with God to-morrow’s where and how”)

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