William Browne (Уильям Броун)

Night

Now great Hyperion left his golden throne
That on the dancing waves in glory shone,
For whose declining on the western shore
The oriental hills black mantles wore,
And thence apace the gentle twilight fled,
That had from hideous caverns ushered
All-drowsy Night, who in a car of jet,
By steeds of iron-grey, which mainly sweat
Moist drops on all the world, drawn through the sky,
The helps of darkness waited orderly.
First thick clouds rose from all the liquid plains;
Then mists from marishes, and grounds whose veins
Were conduit-pipes to many a crystal spring;
From standing pools and fens were following
Unhealthy fogs; each river, every rill
Sent up their vapours to attend her will
These pitchy curtains drew 'twixt earth and heaven
And as Night's chariot through the air was driven,
Clamour grew dumb, unheard was shepherd's song
And silence girt the woods; no warbling tongue
Talk'd to the Echo; satyrs broke their dance,
And all the upper world lay in a trance.
Only the curled streams soft chidings kept;
And little gales that from the green leaf swept
Dry summer's dust, in fearful whisp'rings stirred.
As loath to waken any singing bird.

From Britannia's Pastorals.

William Browne’s other poems:

  1. May Day Customs
  2. To England
  3. A Concert of Birds
  4. Behold, O God!
  5. A Welcome

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

  • Anne Brontë (Энн Бронте) Night (“I love the silent hour of night”)
  • William Morris (Уильям Моррис) Night (“I am Night: I bring again”)
  • Thomas Aird (Томас Эрд) Night (“From sleepless work, and a ne’er-setting sun”)
  • George Russell (Джордж Расселл) Night (“HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose”)
  • Henry Longfellow (Генри Лонгфелло) Night (“Into the darkness and the hush of night”)
  • Charles Heavysege (Чарльз Хевиседж) Night (“‘Tis solemn darkness; the sublime of shade”)
  • Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Night (“Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day”)
  • James Thomson (Джеймс Томсон) Night (“HE cried out through the night”)
  • Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Night (“I thank thee, Father, that the night is near”)
  • Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Night (“As some dusk mother shields from all alarms”)
  • Lucy Montgomery (Люси Монтгомери) Night (“A pale enchanted moon is sinking low”)




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