English Poetry. Florence Earle Coates. Life. Флоренс Эрл Коутс.

Florence Earle Coates (Флоренс Эрл Коутс)

Life

Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay,
⁠       In that far time, forgotten and obscure,
       ⁠When, doubtful of ourselves, of naught secure,
⁠       We feebly uttered first our human cry.
We had not murmured hadst thou passed us by,
       ⁠And now, with all our vaunted knowledge sure,
       ⁠We know not from what source of bounty pure
⁠       Thou camest, our dull clay to glorify.
Yet—for thou didst awake us when but dust,
⁠       Careless of thee—one tender hope redeems
       ⁠Each loss by the dark river: more and more
We feel that we who long for thee may trust
       ⁠To wake again, as children do from dreams,
       ⁠And find thee waiting on the farther shore. 

Florence Earle Coates’s other poems:

1. Tennyson
2. Sappho
3. Song (For Me the Jasmine Buds Unfold)
4. “Victi Resurgunt”
5. Man

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

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Life (“As late I journey’d o’er the extensive plain”)

Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Life (“LIFE, believe, is not a dream”)

Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Life (“Life’s a name”)

Anna Barbauld (Анна-Летиция Барбо) Life (“Life! I Know Not What Thou Art”)

Bryan Procter (Брайан Проктер) Life (“WE are born; we laugh; we weep”)

Francis Bacon (Фрэнсис Бэкон) Life (“THE world’s a bubble, and the life of man”)

Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) Life (“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in”)

James Johnson (Джеймс Джонсон) Life (“Out of the infinite sea of eternity”)

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Life (“LET me but live my life from year to year”)

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Life (“IT is not life upon Thy gifts to live”)

Edith Wharton (Эдит Уортон) Life (“LIFE, like a marble block, is given to all”)

Mary Robinson (Мэри Робинсон) Life (“”What is this world?­thy school, O misery!”)

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