English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Call. Эдгар Альберт Гест.

Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест)

The Call

Joy stands on the hilltops,
Beckoning to me,
Urging me to journey
Up where I can see
Blue skies ever smiling,
Cool green fields below,
Hear the songs of children
Still untouched by woe.
Joy stands on the hilltops,
Urging me to stay,
Spite of toil and trouble,
To life's rugged way,
Holding out a promise
Of a life serene
When the steeps I've mastered
Lying now between.
Joy stands on the hilltops,
Smiling down at me,
Urging me to clamber
Up where I can see
Over toil and trouble
Far beyond despair,
And I answer smiling:
Some day I'll be there.

Edgar Albert Guest’s other poems:

1. The Truth about Envy
2. The Handy Man
3. To the Humble
4. When Nellies’ on the Job
5. When Mother Cooked with Wood

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

Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) The Call (“Out of the nothingness of sleep”)

George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) The Call (“Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life”)

Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) The Call (“COME, my heart ! come, my head”)

George Meredith (Джордж Мередит) The Call (“And if not with a paler cheek”)

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