They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less

Of sound than of words,

In lands where bright blossoms are scentless,

And songless bright birds;

Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses,

Insatiable Summer oppresses

Sere woodlands and sad wildernesses,

And faint flocks and herds.

Where in drieariest days, when all dews end,

And all winds are warm,

Wild Winter’s large floodgates are loosen’d,

And floods, freed by storm;

From broken-up fountain heads, dash on

Dry deserts with long pent up passion–

Here rhyme was first framed without fashion,

Song shaped without form.

Whence gather’d?–The locust’s glad chirrup

May furnish a stave;

The ring os rowel and stirrup,

The wash of a wave.

The chauntof a marsh frog in rushes

That chimes through the pauses and hushes

Of nightfall, the torrent that gushes,

The tempests that rave.

In the deep’ning of dawn, when it dapples

The dusk of the sky,

With streaks like the redd’ning of apples,

The ripening of rye.

To eastward, when cluster by cluster,

Dim stars and dull planets, that muster,

Wax wan in a world of white lustre

That spreads far and high.

In the gathering of night gloom o’er head, in

The still silent change,

All fire-flush’d when forest trees redden

On slopes of the range.

When the gnarl’d knotted trunks Eucalyptian

Seemed carved like weird columns Egyptian

With curious device–quaint inscription,

And heiroglyph strange.

In the Spring, when the wattle gold trembles

‘Twixt shadow and shine,

When each dew-laden air draught resembles

A long draught of wine;

When the skyline’s blue burnished resistance

Makes deeper the dreamiest distance,

Some song in all hearts hath existence,–

Such songs have been mine.

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• Михаил Лермонтов – Чаша жизни by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Бухариной by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Булевар by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Боюсь не смерти я by Михаил Лермонтов
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• Михаил Лермонтов – Бой с барсом (Отрывок Мцыри) by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Блистая, пробегают облака by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Благодарность by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Без вас хочу сказать вам много by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Беглец by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Бартеневой by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая) by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (из Байрона) by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою) by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Ах! Ныне я не тот совсем by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Арфа by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – Ангел by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Лермонтов – А. А. Олениной (Ах! Анна Алексевна) by Михаил Лермонтов
• Михаил Кузмин – Звезда Афродиты by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Зимнее солнце by Михаил Кузьмин

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