English Poetry. Paul Hamilton Hayne. My Study. Пол Гамильтон Хейн.

Paul Hamilton Hayne (Пол Гамильтон Хейн)

My Study

THIS is my world! within these narrow walls,
I own a princely service. The hot care
And tumult of our frenzied life are here
But as a ghost and echo; what befalls
In the far mart to me is less than naught;
I walk the fields of quiet Arcades,
And wander by the brink of hoary seas,
Calmed to the tendance of untroubled thought;
Or if a livelier humor should enhance
The slow-time pulse, 't is not for present strife,
The sordid zeal with which our age is rife,
Its mammon conflicts crowned by fraud or chance,
But gleamings of the lost, heroic life,
Flashed through the gorgeous vistas of romance.

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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