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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• Ольга Седакова – Луг, юго-западный ветер by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Липа by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Легенда шестая by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Когда говорю я: помилуй by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – И меня удивило by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Где-нибудь в углу запущенной болезни by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Элегия смоковницы by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Элегия осенней воды by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Две книги я несу by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Деревья, сильный ветер by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Давид поет Саулу by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Цивилизация by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Седакова – Болезнь by Поэзия На Русском

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