English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. October. Ина Донна Кулбрит.

Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит)

October

THE summer-rose is dead;
The sad leaves, withered,
Strew ankle-deep the pathways to our tread.
Dry grasses mat the plain,
And drifts of blossom slain;
And day and night the wind is like a pain.

No nightingale to sing
In green boughs, listening,
Through balmy twilight hushes of the spring.
No thrush, no oriole
In music to out-roll
The little golden raptures of his soul.

O royal summer-reign!
When will you come again,
Bringing the happy birds across the main?
O blossoms ! when renew
Your pretty garbs, and woo
Your waiting, wild-bee lovers back to you?

For lo, my heart is numb;
For lo, my heart is dumb—
Is silent till the birds and blossoms come!
A flower, that lieth cold
Under the wintry mold,
Waiting the warm spring-breathing to unfold.

O swallow! all too slow
Over the waves you go,
Dipping your light wings in their sparkling flow.
Over the golden sea,
O swallow! flying free,
Fly swiftly with the summer back to me.

Ina Donna Coolbrith’s other poems:

1. The Day of Our Lord
2. Return
3. In Ended Days, a Child, I Trod Thy Sands
4. The Captive of the White City
5. Love-Song

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

Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) October (“The green elm with the one great bough of gold”)

Dinah Craik (Дина Крейк) October (“IT is no joy to me to sit”)

William Bryant (Уильям Брайант) October (“Ay, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath!”)

Rose Cooke (Роуз Кук) October (“There comes a time of rest to thee”)

Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) October (“OCTOBER is the treasurer of the year”)

Paul Hayne (Пол Хейн) October (“THE passionate Summer’s dead! the sky’s a-glow”)

John Payne (Джон Пейн) October (“OCTOBER, May of the descending days”)

Hilaire Belloc (Хилар Беллок) October (“Look, how those steep woods on the mountain’s face”)

Ellis Butler (Эллис Батлер) October (“The forest holds high carnival to-day”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) October (“Gone are the Spring and Summer from the year”)

Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) October (“Beauty has a tarnished dress”)

Robert Frost (Роберт Фрост) October (“O hushed October morning mild”)

Edgar Guest (Эдгар Гест) October (“Days are gettin’ shorter an’ the air a keener snap”)

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