Edna St. Vincent Millay (Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей)
Spring
To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's other poems:- Assault
- Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart
- Kin to Sorrow
- To S. M.
- Grown-up
Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):
Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) Spring ("Birds' love and birds' song") Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Spring ("Stern Winter now, by Spring repress'd") Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) Spring ("Frost-locked all the winter") Gerard Hopkins (Джерард Хопкинс) Spring ("Nothing is so beautiful as spring") William Morris (Уильям Моррис) Spring ("Spring am I, too soft of heart") Isaac Rosenberg (Айзек Розенберг) Spring ("I walk and wonder") Andrew Lang (Эндрю Лэнг) Spring ("Now the bright crocus flames, and now") Robert Anderson (Роберт Андерсон) Spring ("The snow's dissolv'd, the chilly winter's fled") Francis Ledwidge (Фрэнсис Ледвидж) Spring ("Once more the lark with song and speed") Thomas Nashe (Томас Нэш) Spring ("Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king") Janet Hamilton (Джанет Гамильтон) Spring ("Fairy Spring, in kirtle green") Alfred Douglas (Альфред Дуглас) Spring ("Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again!") Marion Angus (Марион Ангус) Spring ("THE green corn springs") William Campbell (Уильям Кэмпбелл) Spring ("There dwells a spirit in the budding year") James Percival (Джеймс Персиваль) Spring ("AGAIN the infant flowers of Spring") Henry Timrod (Генри Тимрод) Spring ("Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air") John Lapraik (Джон Лапрейк) Spring ("THOU goddess of the blooming Spring") Lola Ridge (Лола Ридж) Spring ("A spring wind on the Bowery")
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