English Poetry. Louise Imogen Guiney. On First Entering Westminster Abbey. Луиза Имоджен Гвини.

Louise Imogen Guiney (Луиза Имоджен Гвини)

On First Entering Westminster Abbey

Holy of England! since my light is short
And faint, O rather by the sun anew
Of timeless passion set my dial true,
That with thy saints and thee I may consort;
And wafted in the cool enshadowed port
Of poets, seem a little sail long due,
And be as one the call of memory drew
Unto the saddle void since Agincourt!
Not now for secular love’s unquiet lease,
Receive my soul, who, rapt in thee erewhile,
Hath broken tryst with transitory things;
But seal with her a marriage and a peace
Eternal, on thine Edward’s altar-isle,
Above the stormless sea of ended kings.

Louise Imogen Guiney’s other poems:

1. Undertones at Magdalen
2. On Leaving Winchester
3. Columba and the Stork
4. On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George’s Chapel
5. The Graham Tartan to a Graham

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