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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• Илона Грошева – Мой друг Евгений by Поэзия На Русском
• Илона Грошева – Мечтается Алине by Поэзия На Русском
• Илона Грошева – Любовь две синички на ветке by Поэзия На Русском
• Илона Грошева – Когда приходит Дима в парк by Поэзия На Русском
• Илона Грошева – Каждый год в себе несет воскресение by Поэзия На Русском
• Илона Грошева – Ира by Поэзия На Русском
• Иида Дакоцу – Сложено на вечере поэзии хайку в храме Номандзи by Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏
• Иида Дакоцу – Сквозь зимнюю мглу by Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏
• Иида Дакоцу – Синтоистское святилище у подножия горы в Одани by Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏
• Иида Дакоцу – С землею смешались by Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏
• Иида Дакоцу – Розу покинув by Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏
• Игорь Северянин – Sirel by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
• Игорь Северянин – Синее by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
• Игорь Северянин – Симфония by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
• Игорь Северянин – Шутливая рондель by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
• Игорь Северянин – Щит-солнце by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
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• Игорь Северянин – Памяти В. Башкина by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
• Игорь Северянин – Памяти О.Н. Чюминой by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)
• Игорь Северянин – Памяти Н.И. Кульбина by Игорь (Игорь Васильевич) Cеверянин (Лотарёв)

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