English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Genius. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери)

Genius

A hundred generations have gone into its making,
With all their love and tenderness, with all their dreams and tears;
Their vanished joy and pleasure, their pain and their heart-breaking,
Have colored this rare blossom of the long-unfruitful years. 

Their victory and their laughter for this have strong men given,
For this have sweet, dead women paid in patience which survives­
That a great soul might bring the world, as from the gate of heaven,
All that was rich and beautiful in those forgotten lives.

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s other poems:

1. On the Bay
2. The Hill Maples
3. The Truce of Night
4. When the Fishing Boats Go Out
5. Rain along Shore

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

William McGonagall (Уильям Макгонаголл) Genius (“What is genius?”)

Thomas Aird (Томас Эрд) Genius (“Eye of the brain and heart”)

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