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

Joseph Rodman Drake (Джозеф Родман Дрейк)

Lines

Day gradual fades, in evening gray,
   Its last faint beam hath fled,
And sinks the sun’s declining ray
   In ocean’s wavy bed.
So o’er the loves and joys of youth
   Thy waves, Indifference, roll;
So mantles round our days of truth
   That death-pool of the soul.

Spreads o’er the heavens the shadowy night
   Her dim and shapeless form,
So human pleasures, frail and light,
   Are lost in passion’s storm.
So fades the sunshine of the breast,
   So passion’s dreamings fall,
So friendship’s fervours sink to rest,
   Oblivion shrouds them all.

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. To Eva

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

John Keats (Джон Китс) Lines (“UNFELT unheard, unseen”)

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Lines (“Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear”)

Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Lines (“Before we part to alien thoughts and aims”)

Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Lines (“Wheresoe’er I turn my view”) 1777

Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон) Lines (“O tree of many branches! One thou hast”)

Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Lines (“I MURDER hate by field or flood”) 1790

Oliver Holmes (Оливер Холмс) Lines (“COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame”)

George Morris (Джордж Моррис) Lines (“O Love! the mischief thou hast done!”)

John Lockhart (Джон Локкарт) Lines (“When youthful faith hath fled”)

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