William Cullen Bryant (Уильям Каллен Брайант)

October


Ay, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath! 
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, 
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief 
And the year smiles as it draws near its death. 
Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay 
In the gay woods and in the golden air, 
Like to a good old age released from care, 
Journeying, in long serenity, away. 
In such a bright, late quiet, would that I 
Might wear out life like thee, ’mid bowers and brooks 
And dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, 
And music of kind voices ever nigh; 
And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, 
Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass.

William Cullen Bryant’s other poems:

  1. Hymn of the Waldenses
  2. I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion
  3. To a Musquito
  4. The Disinterred Warrior
  5. The Two Graves

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

  • Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) October (“The green elm with the one great bough of gold”)
  • Dinah Craik (Дина Крейк) October (“IT is no joy to me to sit”)
  • Rose Cooke (Роуз Кук) October (“There comes a time of rest to thee”)
  • Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) October (“OCTOBER is the treasurer of the year”)
  • Paul Hayne (Пол Хейн) October (“THE passionate Summer’s dead! the sky’s a-glow”)
  • John Payne (Джон Пейн) October (“OCTOBER, May of the descending days”)
  • Hilaire Belloc (Хилар Беллок) October (“Look, how those steep woods on the mountain’s face”)
  • Ellis Butler (Эллис Батлер) October (“The forest holds high carnival to-day”)
  • Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) October (“Gone are the Spring and Summer from the year”)
  • Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) October (“Beauty has a tarnished dress”)
  • Robert Frost (Роберт Фрост) October (“O hushed October morning mild”)
  • Ina Coolbrith (Ина Кулбрит) October (“THE summer-rose is dead”)
  • Edgar Guest (Эдгар Гест) October (“Days are gettin’ shorter an’ the air a keener snap”)




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