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

Ernest Christopher Dowson (Эрнест Кристофер Доусон)

Wisdom

Love wine and beauty and the spring,
While wine is red and spring is here,
And through the almond blossoms ring
The dove-like voices of thy Dear.

Love wine and spring and beauty while
The wine hath flavour and spring masks
Her treachery in so soft a smile
That none may think of toil and tasks.

But when spring goes on hurrying feet,
Look not thy sorrow in the eyes,
And bless thy freedom from thy sweet:
This is the wisdom of the wise. 

Ernest Christopher Dowson’s other poems:

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

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

William Cowper (Уильям Купер) Wisdom (“Ere God had built the mountains”)

William Yeats (Уильям Йейтс) Wisdom (“THE true faith discovered was”)

Sara Teasdale (Сара Тисдейл) Wisdom (“WHEN I have ceased to break my wings”)

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