Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли)

Song

It is my thoughts that colour
My soul which slips between;
Thoughts lunar and solar
And gold and sea-green

Tint the pure translucence
Of the crystal thread;
A rainbow nuisance
It runs through my head.

When I am dead, or sleeping
Without any pain,
My soul will stop creeping
Through my jeweled brain

With no brightness to dye it
None will see where
It flows clear and quiet
As a river of air;

Watering dark places
Without sparkle or sound;
Kissing dumb faces
And the dusty ground.

Elinor Wylie’s other poems:

  1. The Fairy Goldsmith
  2. The Prinkin’ Leddie
  3. Poor Earth
  4. Quarrel
  5. The Puritan’s Ballad

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

  • Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Song (“Rarely, rarely, comest thou”)
  • Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Song (“Not the soft sighs of vernal gales”)
  • Charlotte Mew (Шарлотта Мью) Song (“Love love to-day, my dear”)
  • John Davidson (Джон Дэвидсон) Song (“THE boat is chafing at our long delay”)
  • Bryan Procter (Брайан Проктер) Song (“Here’s a health to thee, Mary”)
  • Mary Montagu (Мэри Монтегю) Song (“How happy is the harden’d heart”)
  • George Etherege (Джордж Этеридж) Song (“LADIES, though to your conquering eyes”)
  • Mary Chudleigh (Мэри Чадли) Song (“Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?”)
  • Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) Song (“I saw thee on thy bridal day”) 1827
  • Aphra Behn (Афра Бен) Song (“O Love! that stronger art than wine”)
  • Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Song (“Frosty lies the winter-landscape”)
  • Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) Song (“Oh! To be a flower”)
  • Bayard Taylor (Бейард Тейлор) Song (“NOW the days are brief and drear”)
  • Isaac Bickerstaffe (Айзек Бикерстафф) Song (“How happy were my days, till now”)
  • Hilaire Belloc (Хилар Беллок) Song (“Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year”)
  • George Lyttelton (Джордж Литтелтон) Song (“When Delia on the plain appears”) 1732
  • Philip Massinger (Филип Мэссинджер) Song (“Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death”)
  • Duncan Scott (Дункан Скотт) Song (“I have done”)
  • Richard Sheridan (Ричард Шеридан) Song (“Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen”)




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