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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• Валерий Брюсов – Город сестер любви видение by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Голубое, голубое by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Голос мертвого by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К портрету Лермонтова by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К портрету К.Д. Бальмонта by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К Пасифае. Сонет by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К народу by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К моей стране by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К финскому народу by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К.Д. Бальмонту (Вечно вольный, вечно юный) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К.Д. Бальмонту (Как прежде, мы вдвоем, в ночном кафе. За входом) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К большой медведице by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К Бальмонту (Погасни, исчезни) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К Армении by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К Адалис by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – К.А. Коровину (Душа твоя, быть может, ослепительней) by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Из тихих бездн by Валерий Брюсов
• Валерий Брюсов – Из песен Мальдуна by Валерий Брюсов

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