English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The End of the Day. Кэтрин Тайнен.

Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен)

The End of the Day

The night darkens fast & the shadows darken,
Clouds & the rain gather about mine house,
Only the wood-dove moans, hearken, O hearken!
The moan of the wood-dove in the rain-wet boughs. 

Loneliness & the night! The night is lonely
Star-covered the night takes to a tender breast
Wrapping them in her veil these dark hours only
The weary, the bereaved, the dispossessed. 

When will it lighten? Once the night was kindly
Nor all her hours went by leaden & long.
Now in mine house the hours go groping blindly.
After the shiver of dawn, the first bird’s song. 

Sleep now! The night with wings of splendour swept
Hides heavy eyes from light that they may sleep
Soft & secure, under her gaze so tender
Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep.

Katharine Tynan’s other poems:

1. The Old Soldier
2. Wings in the Night
3. The Little Old Woman
4. The Young Soldier
5. The Vestal

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

Amy Levy (Эми Леви) The End of the Day (“To B. T”)

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