English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 3. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose. Джеймс Джойс.

James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс)

Chamber Music. 3. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose

At that hour when all things have repose,
    O lonely watcher of the skies,
    Do you hear the night wind and the sighs
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose
    The pale gates of sunrise?

When all things repose, do you alone
    Awake to hear the sweet harps play
    To Love before him on his way,
And the night wind answering in antiphon
    Till night is overgone?

Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,
    Whose way in heaven is aglow
    At that hour when soft lights come and go,
Soft sweet music in the air above
    And in the earth below.

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

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