Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Фредерик Годдард Такерман)
First Series. 7. Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray
Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray With trees and trail of mosses, wringing-wet, Beds of the black pitchpine in dead leaves set Whose wasted red has wasted to white away, Remnants of rain and droppings of decay, Why hold ye so my heart, nor dimly let Through your deep leaves the light of yesterday, The faded glimmer of a sunshine set? Is it that in your darkness, shut from strife, The bread of tears becomes the bread of life? Far from the roar of day, beneath your boughs Fresh griefs beat tranquilly, and loves and vows Grow green in your gray shadows, dearer far Even than all lovely lights and roses are?
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman’s other poems:
- First Series. 5. And so the day drops by, the horizon draws
- Third Series. 4. Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed
- First Series. 8. As when down some broad river dropping, we
- First Series. 13. As one who walks and weeps by alien brine
- Second Series. 15. Gertrude and Gulielma, sister-twins
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