English Poetry. William Dean Howells. Change. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс)

Change

SOMETIMES, when after spirited debate
Of letters or affairs, in thought I go
Smiling unto myself, and all aglow
With some immediate purpose, and elate
As if my little, trivial scheme were great,      
And what I would so were already so:
Suddenly I think of her that died, and know,
Whatever friendly or unfriendly fate
Befall me in my hope or in my pride,
It is all nothing but a mockery,        
And nothing can be what it used to be,
When I could bid my happy life abide,
And build on earth for perpetuity,
Then, in the deathless days before she died.

William Dean Howells’s other poems:

1. Vision
2. The Song the Oriole Sings
3. In Earliest Spring
4. The Sarcastic Fair
5. By the Sea

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

Algernon Swinburne (Алджернон Суинбёрн) Change (“But now life’s face beholden”)

George Wither (Джордж Уидер) Change (“The voice which I did more esteem”)

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Change (“Father! there is no change to live with Thee”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Change (“Changed? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed”)

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