English Poetry. Thomas MacDonagh. Ideal. Томас Макдона.

Thomas MacDonagh (Томас Макдона)

Ideal

Fragment of a perfect plan
Is the mortal life of man:
Beauty alone can make it whole,
Beauty alone can help the soul
To labour over the island span
Lying between seas that roll
Darkly, forward and behind:
Beauty beatific will bind
The mortal and the immortal mind.

Thomas MacDonagh’s other poems:

1. Isn’t It Pleasant for the Little Birds
2. To James Clarence Mangan
3. A Woman
4. Dublin Tramcars
5. In the Storm

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

James Flecker (Джеймс Флеккер) Ideal (“When all my gentle friends had gone”)

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