English Poetry. Louise Imogen Guiney. In the Docks. Луиза Имоджен Гвини.

Louise Imogen Guiney (Луиза Имоджен Гвини)

In the Docks

Where the bales thunder till the day is done,
And the wild sounds with wilder odours cope;
Where over crouching sail and coiling rope,
Lascar and Moor along the gangway run;
Where stifled Thames spreads in the pallid sun,
A hive of anarchy from slope to slope;
Flag of my birth, my liberty, my hope,
I see thee at the masthead, joyous one!
O thou good guest! So oft as, young and warm,
To the home-wind thy hoisted colours bound,
Away, away from this too thoughtful ground,
Sodden with human trespass and despair,
Thee only, from the desert, from the storm,
A sick mind follows into Eden air.

Louise Imogen Guiney’s other poems:

1. Undertones at Magdalen
2. On Leaving Winchester
3. On First Entering Westminster Abbey
4. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
5. Columba and the Stork

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