English Poetry. Paul Hamilton Hayne. Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon. Пол Гамильтон Хейн.

Paul Hamilton Hayne (Пол Гамильтон Хейн)

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BETWEEN the sunken sun and the new moon,
I stood in fields through which a rivulet ran
With scarce perceptible motion, not a span
Of its smooth surface trembling to the tune
Of sunset breezes: "O delicious boon,"
I cried, "of quiet! wise is Nature's plan,
Who, in her realm, as in the soul of man,
Alternates storm with calm, and the loud noon
With dewy evening's soft and sacred lull:
Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour,
And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,
Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power;
Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful,
A shining Jacob's ladder of the mind."

Paul Hamilton Hayne’s other poems:

1. The True Heaven
2. A Comparison
3. “The Old Man of the Sea”
4. A Meeting of the Birds
5. Now, While the Rear-Guard of the Flying Year

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