English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. Dedication. Стивен Винсент Бене.

Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене)

Dedication

To W. R. B. 

And so, to you, who always were 
Perseus, D’Artagnan, Lancelot 
To me, I give these weedy rhymes 
In memory of earlier times. 
Now all those careless days are not. 
Of all my heroes, you endure. 

Words are such silly things! too rough, 
Too smooth, they boil up or congeal, 
And neither of us likes emotion -- 
But I can’t measure my devotion! 
And you know how I really feel -- 
And we’re together. There, enough . . .

Stephen Vincent Benet’s other poems:

1. The General Public
2. Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
3. Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
4. The White Peacock
5. The Mountain Whippoorwill

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

Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) Dedication (“These to His Memory–since he held them dear”)

Robert Stevenson (Роберт Стивенсон) Dedication (“MY first gift and my last, to you”)

Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Dedication (“My body having encountered with a soul”)

Robert Service (Роберт Сервис) Dedication (“In youth I longed to paint”)

Henry Timrod (Генри Тимрод) Dedication (“Do you recall—I know you do”)

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