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Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд)


The Voice


As the kindling glances,
Queen-like and clear,
Which the bright moon lances
From her tranquil sphere
At the sleepless waters
Of a lonely mere,
On the wild whirling waves, mournfully, mournfully,
Shiver and die.

As the tears of sorrow
Mothers have shed -
Prayers that tomorrow
Shall in vain be sped
When the flower they flow for
Lies frozen and dead -
Fall on the throbbing brow, fall on the burning breast,
Bringing no rest.

Like bright waves that fall
With a lifelike motion
On the lifeless margin of the sparkling Ocean;
A wild rose climbing up a mouldering wall -
A gush of sunbeams through a ruined hall -
Strains of glad music at a funeral -
So sad, and with so wild a start
To this deep-sobered heart,
So anxiously and painfully,
So drearily and doubtfully,
And oh, with such intolerable change
Of thought, such contrast strange,
O unforgotten voice, thy accents come,
Like wanderers from the world's extremity,
Unto their ancient home!

In vain, all, all in vain,
They beat upon mine ear again,
Those melancholy tones so sweet and still.
Those lute-like tones which in the bygone year
Did steal into mine ear -
Blew such a thrilling summons to my will,
Yet could not shake it;
Made my tost heart its very life-blood spill,
Yet could not break it. 



Matthew Arnold's other poems:
  1. A Modern Sappho
  2. To George Cruikshank
  3. Stanzas Composed at Carnac
  4. Heine’s Grave
  5. Written in Emerson’s Essays


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

  • Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Voice ("Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me")
  • Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) The Voice ("Safe in the magic of my woods")
  • Thomas Moore (Томас Мур) The Voice ("It came o'er her sleep, like a voice of those days")
  • Charlotte Mew (Шарлотта Мью) The Voice ("From our low seat beside the fire")

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