Infelix

Where is the promise of my years;

Once written on my brow?

Ere errors, agonies and fears

Brought with them all that speaks in tears,

Ere I had sunk beneath my peers;

Where sleeps that promise now?

Naught lingers to redeem those hours,

Still, still to memory sweet!

The flowers that bloomed in sunny bowers

Are withered all; and Evil towers

Supreme above her sister powers

Of Sorrow and Deceit.

I look along the columned years,

And see Life’s riven fane,

Just where it fell, amid the jeers

Of scornful lips, whose mocking sneers,

For ever hiss within mine ears

To break the sleep of pain.

I can but own my life is vain

A desert void of peace;

I missed the goal I sought to gain,

I missed the measure of the strain

That lulls Fame’s fever in the brain,

And bids Earth’s tumult cease.

Myself! alas for theme so poor

A theme but rich in Fear;

I stand a wreck on Error’s shore,

A spectre not within the door,

A houseless shadow evermore,

An exile lingering here.

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Poems in English 

• Шекспир – Любовь к себе моим владеет взором – Сонет 62 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Люблю твои глаза – Сонет 132 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Люби другого – Сонет 139 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Лелеет лето лучший свой цветок – Сонет 94 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Дыханье мысли и огонь желанья – Сонет 45 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – День без тебя казался ночью – Сонет 43 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Что, если бы я право заслужил – Сонет 125 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Бессмертную хоронят красоту – Сонет 83 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – А это смерть – Сонет 64 by William Shakespeare
• Шарль Бодлер – Жажда небытия by Charles Baudelaire
• Омар Хайям – О, не растите дерево печали by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام
• Омар Хайям – О мудрец, если тот или этот дурак by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام
• Омар Хайям о людях: Стихи, рубаи о человеке Омара Хайяма – Poetry Monster by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام
• Омар Хайям – О, кумир, Дружбу ты почему прервала by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام
• Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام
• Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام
• Омар Хайям – О друге я мечтал, но им не стал никто by Omar (Омар) Khayyam (Хайям) عمر خیام

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