A Supplication

Awake, awake, my Lyre!

And tell thy silent master’s humble tale

In sounds that may prevail;

Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:

Though so exalted she

And I so lowly be

Tell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

Hark, how the strings awake!

And, though the moving hand approach not near,

Themselves with awful fear

A kind of numerous trembling make.

Now all thy forces try;

Now all thy charms apply;

Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye.

Weak Lyre! thy virtue sure

Is useless here, since thou art only found

To cure, but not to wound,

And she to wound, but not to cure,

Too weak too wilt thou prove

My passion to remove;

Physic to other ills, thou’rt nourishment to love.

Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre!

For thou canst never tell my humble tale

In sounds that will prevail,

Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire;

All thy vain mirth lay by,

Bid thy strings silent lie,

Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre, and let thy master die.

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• An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)
• A Precise Woman by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)
• A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)
• A Jewish Cemetery In Germany by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)
• A Dog After Love by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)
• Straw sandal half sunk by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Sparrow singing by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Ploughing the land by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Old well by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Not quite dark yet by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• My arm for a pillow by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Listening to the moon by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Lighting one candle by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Yosa Buson – Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• His Holiness the Abbot by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• He’s on the porch by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Harvest moon by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Evening wind by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村

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