English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. A Memory. Руперт Брук.

Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук)

A Memory

     From a sonnet-sequence

 Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept
   Softly along the dim way to your room,
   And found you sleeping in the quiet gloom,
 And holiness about you as you slept.
 I knelt there; till your waking fingers crept
   About my head, and held it. I had rest
   Unhoped this side of Heaven, beneath your breast.
 I knelt a long time, still; nor even wept.

 It was great wrong you did me; and for gain
 Of that poor moment's kindliness, and ease,
 And sleepy mother-comfort!
                            Child, you know
 How easily love leaps out to dreams like these,
 Who has seen them true. And love that's wakened so
 Takes all too long to lay asleep again.

WAIKIKI, October 1913

Rupert Chawner Brooke’s other poems:

1. The One Before the Last
2. Song (The way of love was thus)
3. The Way That Lovers Use
4. On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess
5. Fafaia

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

William Allingham (Вильям Аллингам) A Memory (“Four ducks on a pond”)

Lewis Morris (Льюис Моррис) A Memory (“DOWN dropped the sun upon the sea”)

George Russell (Джордж Расселл) A Memory (“YOU remember, dear, together”)

Helen Cone (Хелен Коун) A Memory (“Though pent in stony streets, ’tis joy to know”)

Edward Sill (Эдвард Силл) A Memory (“UPON the barren, lonely hill”)

Ina Coolbrith (Ина Кулбрит) A Memory (“THROUGH rifts of cloud the moon’s soft silver slips”)

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