English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Immortality. Эллис Паркер Батлер.

Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер)

Immortality

I bowed my head in anguish sore
  When Life made Death his bride;
“Soul, we are lost forever more!”
  Unto my soul I cried.

“Nay, waste in wailing not thy breath,”
  My soul replied to me,
“Behold! The child of Life and Death
  Is Immortality!”

Ellis Parker Butler’s other poems:

1. Song for Heroes
2. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
3. The Sheep
4. Cupid Caught Napping
5. Partners

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

Joseph Addison (Джозеф Аддисон) Immortality (“O Liberty! thou goddess, heavenly bright”)

Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд) Immortality (“Foil’d by our fellow-men, depress’d, outworn”)

George Russell (Джордж Расселл) Immortality (“WE must pass like smoke or live within the spirit’s fire”)

Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Immortality (“So I have sunk my roots in earth”)

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