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

Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун)

Retrospect

"Backward," he said, "dear heart I like to look
To those half-spring, half-winter days, when first
We drew together, ere the leaf-buds burst.
Sunbeams were silver yet, keen gusts yet shook
The boughs. Have you remembered that kind book,
That for our sake Galeotto's part rehearsed,
(The friend of lovers,—this time blessed, not cursed!)
And that best hour, when reading we forsook?"

   She, listening, wore the smile a mother wears
At childish fancies needless to control;
Yet felt a fine, hid pain with pleasure blend.
Better it seemed to think that love of theirs,
Native as breath, eternal as the soul,
Knew no beginning, could not have an end.

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):

Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) Retrospect (“In your arms was still delight”)

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