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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• Николай Гербель – В дорогу by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Ура, объявлена война by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Салютовка by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Простор by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Песнь лейб-гвардии уланского полка by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – На смерть воробья by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Меня преследует какой-то демон злой by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Изюмцам by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Николай Гербель – Бокал by Николай Гербель (Härbel)
• Наум Коржавин – Поэзия не страсть, а власть by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Подмосковная платформа в апреле by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Песня лейб-казачьей сотни by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Перевал by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Памяти Герцена или Баллада об историческом недосыпе by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – От судьбы никуда не уйти by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – От дурачеств, от ума ли by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Осень в Караганде by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Он собирался многое свершить by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – О Господи! Как я хочу умереть by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Никакой истерики by Поэзия На Русском

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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