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Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон)


Nocturne


Night of Mid-June, in heavy vapours dying,
Like priestly hands thy holy touch is lying
Upon the world's wide brow;
God-like and grand all nature is commanding
The "peace that passes human understanding";
I, also, feel it now.

What matters it to-night, if one life treasure
I covet, is not mine! Am I to measure
The gifts of Heaven's decree
By my desires? O! life for ever longing
For some far gift, where many gifts are thronging,
God wills, it may not be.

Am I to learn that longing, lifted higher,
Perhaps will catch the gleam of sacred fire
That shows my cross is gold?
That underneath this cross - however lowly,
A jewel rests, white, beautiful and holy,
Whose worth can not be told.

Like to a scene I watched one day in wonder: -
A city, great and powerful, lay under
A sky of grey and gold;
The sun outbreaking in his farewell hour,
Was scattering afar a yellow shower
Of light, that aureoled

With brief hot touch, so marvellous and shining,
A hundred steeples on the sky out-lining,
Like network threads of fire;
Above them all, with halo far outspreading,
I saw a golden cross in glory heading
A consecrated spire:

I only saw its gleaming form uplifting,
Against the clouds of grey to seaward drifting,
And yet I surely know
Beneath the seen, a great unseen is resting,
For while the cross that pinnacle is cresting,
An Altar lies below.

Night of Mid-June, so slumberous and tender,
Night of Mid-June, transcendent in thy splendour
Thy silent wings enfold
And hush my longing, as at thy desire
All colour fades from round that far-off spire,
Except its cross of gold.



Emily Pauline Johnson's other poems:
  1. Low Tide at St. Andrews
  2. Where Leaps the Ste. Marie
  3. The Vagabonds
  4. Wave-Won
  5. Joe - An Etching


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

  • Madison Cawein (Мэдисон Кавейн) Nocturne ("A disc of violet blue")
  • Arthur Guiterman (Артур Гитерман) Nocturne ("The three-toed tree-toad")
  • Countee Cullen (Каунти Каллен) Nocturne ("Tell me all things false are true")
  • Gerald Griffin (Джеральд Гриффин) Nocturne ("Sleep that like the couched dove")
  • Abram Ryan (Абрам Райан) Nocturne ("I sit to-night by the firelight")
  • Eugene O'Neill (Юджин О’Нил) Nocturne ("The sunset gun booms out in hollow roar") 1910

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