English Poetry. Ernest Christopher Dowson. Epigram. Эрнест Кристофер Доусон.

Ernest Christopher Dowson (Эрнест Кристофер Доусон)

Epigram

Because I am idolatrous and have besought,
With grievous supplication and consuming prayer,
The admirable image that my dreams have wrought
Out of her swan's neck and her dark, abundant hair:
The jealous gods, who brook no worship save their own,
Turned my live idol marble and her heart to stone.

Ernest Christopher Dowson’s other poems:

1. Villanelle of Marguerite’s
2. Soli Cantare Periti Arcades
3. Quid Non Supremus, Amantes?
4. Vain Resolves
5. Amor Umbratilis

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

George Byron (Джордж Байрон) Epigram (“In digging up your bones, Tom Paine”) January 2, 1820

William Blake (Уильям Блейк) Epigram (“You say their Pictures well Painted be”)

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Epigram (“After such years of dissension and strife”)

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