English Poetry. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Lament. Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей)

Lament

Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I’ll make you little jackets;
I’ll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There’ll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s other poems:

1. Two Sonnets in Memory
2. When the Year Grows Old
3. Not Even My Pride Shall Suffer Much
4. Sonnets 09: Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old
5. Portrait by a Neighbour

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

Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Lament (“How she would have loved”)

Robert Binyon (Роберт Биньон) Lament (“Fall now, my cold thoughts, frozen fall”)

Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Lament (“When I was a windy boy and a bit”)

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