English Poetry. Louise Imogen Guiney. Pax Paganica. Луиза Имоджен Гвини.

Louise Imogen Guiney (Луиза Имоджен Гвини)

Pax Paganica

Good oars, for Arnold’s sake,
By Laleham lightly bound,
And near the bank, O soft,
Darling swan!
Let not the o’erweary wake
Anew from natal ground,
But where he slumbered oft,
Slumber on.

Be less than boat or bird,
The pensive stream along;
No murmur make, nor gleam,
At his side.
Where was it he had heard
Of warfare and of wrong?—
Not there, in any dream
Since he died.

Louise Imogen Guiney’s other poems:

1. Undertones at Magdalen
2. Columba and the Stork
3. The Graham Tartan to a Graham
4. Writ in my Lord Clarendon’s “History of the Rebellion”
5. An Epitaph for William Hazlitt

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