English Poetry. Jane Austen. Ode to Pity. Джейн Остин.

Jane Austen (Джейн Остин)

Ode to Pity

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Ever musing I delight to tread
The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove
Whilst the pale Moon her beams doth shed
On disappointed Love.
While Philomel on airy hawthorn Bush
Sings sweet and Melancholy, And the thrush
Converses with the Dove.

2

Gently brawling down the turnpike road,
Sweetly noisy falls the Silent Stream--
The Moon emerges from behind a Cloud
And darts upon the Myrtle Grove her beam.
Ah! then what Lovely Scenes appear,
The hut, the Cot, the Grot, and Chapel queer,
And eke the Abbey too a mouldering heap,
Cnceal'd by aged pines her head doth rear
And quite invisible doth take a peep.

Jane Austen’s other poems:

1. When Stretch’d on One’s Bed
2. Of a Ministry Pitiful, Angry, Mean
3. To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy Who Died December 16 – My Birthday.
4. See They Come, Post Haste from Thanet
5. Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend

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

William Collins (Уильям Коллинз) Ode To Pity (“O THOU, the Friend of Man assign’d”)

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