English Poetry. Henry Van Dyke. Life. Генри Ван Дайк.

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк)

Life

LET me but live my life from year to year,
    With forward face and unreluctant soul; 
    Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal; 
Not mourning for the things that disappear
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear
    From what the future veils; but with a whole 
    And happy heart, that pays its toll 
To Youth and Age, and travels on with cheer.

So let the way wind up the hill or down,
    O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy: 
    Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, 
New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,
    My heart will keep the courage of the quest, 
    And hope the road's last turn will be the best.

Henry Van Dyke’s other poems:

1. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
2. The Wind of Sorrow
3. Spring in the South
4. Patria
5. Nepenthe

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”)

Florence Coates (Флоренс Коутс) Life (“Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay”)

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”)

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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