English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. A Lament. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон)

A Lament

  I stand where I last stood with thee!
                Sorrow, O sorrow!
  There is not a leaf on the trysting-tree;
  There is not a joy on the earth to me;
                Sorrow, O sorrow!
  When shalt thou be once again what thou wert?
  Oh, the sweet yesterdays fled from the heart!
                Have they a morrow?--
  Here we stood, ere we parted, so close side by side;
  Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide
  When, moment on moment, there rushes between
                The one and the other, a sea;--
  Ah, never can fall from the days that have been
                A gleam on the years that shall be!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s other poems:

1. Love and Fame
2. The Desire of Fame
3. Lost and Avenged
4. Address to the Soul in Despondency
5. The Love-Letter

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

Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) A Lament (“O World! O Life! O Time!”)

John Tabb (Джон Табб) A Lament (“O lady cloud, why are you weeping?”)

Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) A Lament (“CLOUDS is under clouds and rain”)

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