English Poetry. Katherine Mansfield. Stars. Кэтрин Мэнсфилд.

Katherine Mansfield (Кэтрин Мэнсфилд)

Stars

Most merciful God
Look kindly upon
An impudent child
Who wants sitting on.
This evening late
I went to the door
And then to the gate
There were more stars--more
Than I could have expected,
Even I!
I was amazed,
Almighty, August!
I was utterly dazed,
Omnipotent! Just
In a word I was floored,
Good God of Hosts--Lord!
That at this time of day
They should still blaze away,
That thou hadst not rejected
Or at least circumspected
Their white silver beauty--
Was it spite? Was it duty?

Katherine Mansfield’s other poems:

1. The Town Between the Hills
2. The Arabian Shawl
3. Villa Pauline
4. Waves
5. A Joyful Song Of Five

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

Emily Brontë (Эмили Бронте) Stars (“Ah! why, because the dazzling sun”)

Menella Smedley (Менелла Смедли) Stars (“How pretty is each little star”)

Joyce Kilmer (Джойс Килмер) Stars (” Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air”)

Robert Frost (Роберт Фрост) Stars (“How countlessly they congregate”)

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