English Poetry. Florence Earle Coates. Longing. Флоренс Эрл Коутс.

Florence Earle Coates (Флоренс Эрл Коутс)

Longing

The lilacs blossom at the door,
⁠⁠     The early rose
Whispers a promise to her buds,
⁠⁠     And they unclose.

There is a perfume everywhere,
     ⁠⁠A breath of song,
A sense of some divine return
⁠⁠     For waiting long.

Who knows but some imprisoned joy
     ⁠⁠From bondage breaks,—
Some exiled and enchanted hope
⁠⁠     From dreams awakes?

Who knows but you are coming back
⁠⁠     To comfort me
For all the languor and the pain,
⁠⁠     Persephone?

O come! For one brief spring return,
⁠⁠     Love's tryst to keep;
Then let me share the Stygian fruit,
⁠⁠     The wintry sleep!

Florence Earle Coates’s other poems:

1. Tennyson
2. Sappho
3. Song (For Me the Jasmine Buds Unfold)
4. “Victi Resurgunt”
5. Man

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд) Longing (“Come to me in my dreams, and then”)

Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) Longing (“If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day”)

Ina Coolbrith (Ина Кулбрит) Longing (“O foolish wisdom sought in books!”)

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