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Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон)


Peace


I.

I am as awful as my brother War,
I am the sudden silence after clamour.
I am the face that shows the seamy scar
When blood and frenzy has lost its glamour.
Men in my pause shall know the cost at last
That is not to be paid in triumphs or tears,
Men will begin to judge the thing that's past
As men will judge it in a hundred years.

Nations! whose ravenous engines must be fed
Endlessly with the father and the son,
My naked light upon your darkness, dread! -
By which ye shall behold what ye have done:
Whereon, more like a vulture than a dove,
Ye set my seal in hatred, not in love.

II.

Let no man call me good. I am not blest.
My single virtue is the end of crimes,
I only am the period of unrest,
The ceasing of horrors of the times;
My good is but the negative of ill,
Such ill as bends the spirit with despair,
Such ill as makes the nations' soul stand still
And freeze to stone beneath a Gorgon glare.

Be blunt, and say that peace is but a state
Wherein the active soul is free to move,
And nations only show as mean or great
According to the spirit then they prove. -
O which of ye whose battle-cry is Hate
Will first in peace dare shout the name of Love? 



Eleanor Farjeon's other poems:
  1. Sonnets. 9. Love Needs not Two the Render It Complete
  2. Solitary
  3. Sonnets. 11. A few of us who faltered as we fared
  4. Pan-Worship
  5. Sonnets. 4. Wilt thou put seals on love because men say


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

  • Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) Peace ("Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour")
  • William Yeats (Уильям Йейтс) Peace ("AH, that Time could touch a form")
  • George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) Peace ("SWEET Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave")
  • Gerard Hopkins (Джерард Хопкинс) Peace ("When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut")
  • Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) Peace ("My Soul, there is a country")
  • Robert Anderson (Роберт Андерсон) Peace ("Now, God be prais'd! we've peace at last")
  • Robert Bloomfield (Роберт Блумфилд) Peace ("Halt! ye Legions, sheathe your Steel")
  • Charles Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Peace ("There is silence in the evening when the long days cease") December 1912
  • Gerald Massey (Джеральд Масси) Peace ("Yes, Peace is beautiful, and I do yearn")
  • Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) Peace ("No more to watch by Night's eternal shore")
  • Sara Teasdale (Сара Тисдейл) Peace ("PEACE flows into me")
  • Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Peace ("Two dwellings, Peace, are thine")
  • Albery Whitman (Элбери Уитмен) Peace ("As the raindrop on a flower")

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