English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. Compensation. Хелен Грей Коун.

Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун)

Compensation

  The brook ran laughing from the shade,
    And in the sunshine danced all day:
  The starlight and the moonlight made
    Its glimmering path a Milky Way.

  The blue sky burned, with summer fired;
    For parching fields, for pining flowers,
  The spirits of the air desired
    The brook's bright life to shed in showers.

  It gave its all that thirst to slake;
    Its dusty channel lifeless lay;
  Now softest flowers, white-foaming, make
    Its winding bed a Milky Way.

Helen Gray Cone’s other poems:

1. The Story of the “Orient”
2. The Ride to the Lady
3. The Glorious Company
4. The House of Hate
5. The Arrowmaker

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

Jean Ingelow (Джин Инджелоу) Compensation (“One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea”)

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