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Washington Allston (Вашингтон Олстон)


First Love


Ah me! how hard the task to bear
The weight of ills we know!
But harder still to dry the tear,
That mourns a nameless we.

If by the side of Lucy's wheel
I sit to see her spin,
My head around begins to reel,
My heart to beat within.

Or when on harvest holliday
I lead the dance along,
If Lucy chance to cross my way,
So sure she leads me wrong,

If I attempt the pipe to play,
And catch my Lucy's eye,
The trembling musick dies away,
And melts into a sigh.

Where'er I go, where'er I turn,
If Lucy there be found,
I seem to shiver, yet I burn,
My head goes swimming round.

I cannot bear to see her smile,
Unless she smile on me;
And if she frown, I sigh the while,
But know not whence it be.

Ah, what have I to Lucy done
To cause me so much stir?
From rising to the setting sun
I sigh, and think of her.

In vain I strive to join the throng
In social mirth and ease;
Now lonely woods I stray among,
For only woods can please.

Ah, me! this restless heart I fear
Will never be at rest,
'Till Lucy cease to live, or tear
Her image from my breast.



Washington Allston's other poems:
  1. Myrtilla
  2. Sonnet. On the Luxembourg Gallery
  3. Sonnet. On the Group of the Three Angels before the Tent of Abraham, by Raffaelle, in the Vatican
  4. The Paint-Kings
  5. Sonnet. On seeing the Picture of Æolus by Peligrino Tibaldi, in the Institute at Bologna


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

  • John Clare (Джон Клэр) First Love ("I ne'er was struck before that hour")
  • Caroline Norton (Каролина Нортон) First Love ("YES, I know that you once were my lover")
  • Frederick Faber (Фредерик Фабер) First Love ("I have been long without a home")
  • Louise Moulton (Луиза Молтон) First Love ("Time was you heard the music of a sigh")

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