Wallace Stevens (Уоллес Стивенс)

Sonnet

Lo, even as I passed beside the booth
Of roses, and beheld them brightly twine
To damask heights, taking them as a sign
Of my own self still unconcerned with truth;
Even as I held up in hands uncouth
And drained with joy the golden-bodied wine,
Deeming it half-unworthy, half divine,
From out the sweet-rimmed goblet of my youth.

Even in that pure hour I heard the tone
Of grievous music stir in memory,
Telling me of the time already flown
From my first youth. It sounded like the rise
Of distant echo from dead melody,
Soft as a song heard far in Paradise.

1. Bantams in Pine-Woods
2. To the One of Fictive Music
3. Continual Conversation with a Silent Man
4. Nomad Exquisite
5. Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly

James Lowell (Джеймс Лоуэлл) Sonnet ("If some small savor creep into my rhyme")

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