English Poetry. James Joyce. Alone. Джеймс Джойс.

James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс)

Alone

The noon’s greygolden meshes make
All night a veil,
The shorelamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum tendrils trail. 

The sly reeds whisper to the night
A name-- her name-
And all my soul is a delight,
A swoon of shame.

James Joyce’s other poems:

1. Chamber Music. 26. Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night
2. Nightpiece
3. Chamber Music. 28. Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing
4. Chamber Music. 12. What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon
5. Lament for the Yeomen

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

Sydney Dobell (Сидней Добелл) Alone (“There came to me softly a small wind from the sea”)

Lewis Morris (Льюис Моррис) Alone (“WHAT shall it profit a man”)

Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) Alone (“From childhood’s hour I have not been”)

Ambrose Bierce (Амброз Бирс) Alone (“IN contact, lo! the flint and steel”)

Edward Sill (Эдвард Силл) Alone (“STILL earth turns and pulses stir”)

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