English Poetry. John McCrae. Then and Now. Джон Маккрей.

John McCrae (Джон Маккрей)

Then and Now

Beneath her window in the fragrant night
I half forget how truant years have flown
Since I looked up to see her chamber-light,
Or catch, perchance, her slender shadow thrown
Upon the casement; but the nodding leaves
Sweep lazily across the unlit pane,
And to and fro beneath the shadowy eaves,
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
When all is still, as if the very trees
Were listening for the coming of her feet
That come no more; yet, lest I weep, the breeze
Sings some forgotten song of those old years
Until my heart grows far too glad for tears.

John McCrae’s other poems:

1. The Oldest Drama
2. The Warrior
3. The Dying of Pere Pierre
4. Equality
5. The Shadow of the Cross

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

Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Then and Now (“When battles were fought”) 1915

Madison Cawein (Мэдисон Кавейн) Then and Now (“When my old heart was young, my dear”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Then and Now (“A little time agone, a few brief years”)

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