English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. Hunger. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.

Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон)

Hunger

I come among the peoples like a shadow.
I sit down by each man's side.
None sees me, but they look on one another,
And know that I am there.
My silence is like the silence of the tide
That buries the playground of children;
Like the deepening of frost in the slow night,
When birds are dead in the morning.
Armies trample, invade, destroy,
With guns roaring from earth and air.
I am more terrible than armies,
I am more feared than the cannon.
Kings and chancellors give commands;
I give no command to any;
But I am listened to more than kings
And more than passionate orators.
I unswear words, and undo deeds.
Naked things know me.
I am first and last to be felt of the living.
I am Hunger

Robert Laurence Binyon’s other poems:

1. No More Now with Jealous Complaining
2. The Zeppelin
3. A Child in Nature, as a Child in Years
4. Edith Cavell
5. The Fourth of August

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