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Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди))


Then and Now


When battles were fought
With a chivalrous sense of Should and Ought,
In spirit men said,
‘End we quick or dead,
Honour is some reward!
Let us fight fair – for our own best or worst;
So, Gentlemen of the Guard,
Fire first!’

In the open they stood,
Man to man in his knightlihood:
They would not deign
To profit by a stain
On the honourable rules,
Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst
Who in the heroic schools
Was nurst.

But now, behold, what
Is warfare wherein honour is not!
Rama laments
Its dead innocents:
Herod breathes: ‘Sly slaughter
Shall rule! Let us, by modes once called accurst,
Overhead, under water,
Stab first.’

1915

Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. A Victorian Rehearsal
  2. Song to an Old Burden
  3. Long Plighted
  4. After the Fair
  5. Paths of Former Time


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

  • Madison Cawein (Мэдисон Кавейн) Then and Now ("When my old heart was young, my dear")
  • Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Then and Now ("A little time agone, a few brief years")
  • John McCrae (Джон Маккрей) Then and Now ("Beneath her window in the fragrant night")
  • Louisa Bevington (Луиза Бевингтон) Then and Now ("ONCE the question was to know")

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