English Poetry. Thomas Gent. Stanzas. Томас Гент.

Thomas Gent (Томас Гент)

Stanzas

Say, why is the stern eye averted with scorn
  Of the stoic who passes along?
And why frowns the maid, else as mild as the morn.
  On the victim of falsehood and wrong?

For the wretch sunk in sorrow, repentance, and shame,
  The tear of compassion is won:
And alone must she forfeit the wretch's sad claim,
  Because she's deceived and undone?

Oh! recal the stern look, ere it reaches her heart,
  To bid its wounds rankle anew;
Oh! smile, or embalm with a tear the sad smart,
  And angels will smile upon you.

Time was, when she knew nor opprobrium nor pain,
  And youth could its pleasures impart,
Till some serpent distill'd through her bosom the stain,
  As he wound round the strings of her heart.

Poor girl! let thy tears through thy blandishments break,
  Nor strive to retrace them within;
For mine would I mingle with those on thy cheek,
  Nor think that such sorrow were sin.

When the low-trampled reed, and the pine in its pride,
  Shall alike feel the hand of decay,
May thy God grant that mercy the world has denied,
  And wipe all your sorrows away!

Thomas Gent’s other poems:

1. Prometheus
2. Written in the Album of the Lady of Counsellor D. Pollock
3. On a Delightful Drawing in my Album
4. Widowed Love
5. The Recall of the Hero

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

George Byron (Джордж Байрон) Stanzas (“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home”) November 5, 1820

Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Stanzas (“Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon”) April, 1814

Emily Brontë (Эмили Бронте) Stanzas (“I’ll not weep that thou art going to leave me”)

Anne Brontë (Энн Бронте) Stanzas (“Oh, weep not, love! each tear that springs”)

Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Stanzas (“IF thou be in a lonely place”)

Mary Robinson (Мэри Робинсон) Stanzas (“WHEN fragrant gales and summer show’rs”)

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