English Poetry. Hamlin Garland. A Wish. Гэмлин Гарленд.

Hamlin Garland (Гэмлин Гарленд)

A Wish

ALL day and many days I rode,
My horse’s head set toward the sea;
And as I rode a longing came to me
That I might keep the sunset road, 
Riding my horse right on and on,
O’ertake the day still lagging at the west,
And so reach boyhood from the dawn,
And be with all the days at rest.

For then the odor of the growing wheat,
The flare of sumach on the hills, 
The touch of grasses to my feet
Would cure my brain of all its ills,—
Would fill my heart so full of joy
That no stern lines could fret my face.
There would I be forever boy,
Lit by the sky’s unfailing grace.

Hamlin Garland’s other poems:

1. The Toil of the Trail
2. The Herald Crane
3. The Ute Lover
4. In August
5. The Meadow Lark

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

Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд) A Wish (“I ask not that my bed of death”)

Frederick Locker-Lampson (Фредерик Локер-Лэмпсон) A Wish (“To the south of the church, and beneath yonder yew”)

Edgar Guest (Эдгар Гест) A Wish (“I’d like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of joy again”)

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