English Poetry. Joseph Rodman Drake. Hope. Джозеф Родман Дрейк.

Joseph Rodman Drake (Джозеф Родман Дрейк)

Hope

See through yon cloud that rolls in wrath,
   One little star benignant peep,
To light along their trackless path
   The wanderers of the stormy deep.

And thus, oh Hope! thy lovely form
   In sorrow’s gloomy night shall be
The sun that looks through cloud and storm
   Upon a dark and moonless sea.

When heaven is all serene and fair,
   Full many a brighter gem we meet;
’Tis when the tempest hovers there,
   Thy beam is most divinely sweet.

The rainbow, when the sun declines,
   Like faithless friend will disappear;
Thy light, dear star! more brightly shines
   When all is wail and weeping here.

And though Aurora’s stealing beam
   May wake a morning of delight,
’Tis only thy consoling beam
   Will smile amid affliction’s night.

Joseph Rodman Drake’s other poems:

1. Written in a Lady’s Album
2. Song (’Tis not the beam of her bright blue eye)
3. To —
4. Bronx
5. Lines Written on Leaving New Rochelle

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

Joseph Addison (Джозеф Аддисон) Hope (“Our lives, discoloured with our present woes”)

Oliver Goldsmith (Оливер Голдсмит) Hope (“To the last moment of his breath”)

Emily Brontë (Эмили Бронте) Hope (“Hope was but a timid friend”)

George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) Hope (“I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he”)

Charlotte Smith (Шарлотта Смит) Hope (“Parody on Lord Strangford’s”)

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