English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Mutability. Руперт Брук.

Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук)

Mutability

 They say there's a high windless world and strange,
   Out of the wash of days and temporal tide,
   Where Faith and Good, Wisdom and Truth abide,
 Æterna corpora, subject to no change.
 There the sure suns of these pale shadows move;
   There stand the immortal ensigns of our war;
   Our melting flesh fixed Beauty there, a star,
 And perishing hearts, imperishable Love....

 Dear, we know only that we sigh, kiss, smile;
   Each kiss lasts but the kissing; and grief goes over;
   Love has no habitation but the heart.
 Poor straws! on the dark flood we catch awhile,
   Cling, and are borne into the night apart.
   The laugh dies with the lips, 'Love' with the lover.

SOUTH KENSINGTON-MAKAWELI, 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. The True Beatitude

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

William Wordsworth (Уильям Вордсворт) Mutability (“FROM low to high doth dissolution climb”)

Edmund Spenser (Эдмунд Спенсер) Mutability (“When I bethink me on that speech whilere”)

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