English Poetry. James Thomson. Night. Джеймс Томсон.

James Thomson (Джеймс Томсон)

Night

HE cried out through the night:
    "Where is the light? 
    Shall nevermore 
    Open Heaven's door? 
    Oh, I am left 
    Lonely, bereft!"

He cried out through the night:
    It spread vaguely white, 
    With its ghost of a moon 
    Above the dark swoon 
    Of the earth lying chill, 
    Breathless, grave still.

He cried out through the night:
    His voice in its might 
    Rang forth far and far, 
    And then like a star 
    Dwindled from sense 
    In the Immense.

He cried out through the night:
    No answering light, 
    No syllabled sound; 
    Beneath and around 
    A long shuddering thrill 
    Then all again still.

James Thomson’s other poems:

1. In the Room
2. A Song of Sighing
3. Once in a Saintly Passion
4. Day
5. Proem

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

Anne Brontë (Энн Бронте) Night (“I love the silent hour of night”)

William Morris (Уильям Моррис) Night (“I am Night: I bring again”)

Thomas Aird (Томас Эрд) Night (“From sleepless work, and a ne’er-setting sun”)

George Russell (Джордж Расселл) Night (“HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose”)

William Browne (Уильям Броун) Night (“Now great Hyperion left his golden throne”)

Henry Longfellow (Генри Лонгфелло) Night (“Into the darkness and the hush of night”)

Charles Heavysege (Чарльз Хевиседж) Night (“‘Tis solemn darkness; the sublime of shade”)

Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Night (“Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day”)

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Night (“I thank thee, Father, that the night is near”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Night (“As some dusk mother shields from all alarms”)

Lucy Montgomery (Люси Монтгомери) Night (“A pale enchanted moon is sinking low”)

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