The Wish

Well then; I now do plainly see

This busy world and I shall ne’er agree.

The very honey of all earthly joy

Does of all meats the soonest cloy;

And they (methinks) deserve my pity

Who for it can endure the stings,

The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings

Of this great hive, the city.

Ah, yet, ere I descend to th’ grave

May I a small house and large garden have!

And a few friends, and many books, both true,

Both wise, and both delightful too!

And since love ne’er will from me flee,

A mistress moderately fair,

And good as guardian angels are,

Only belov’d, and loving me.

O fountains! when in you shall I

Myself eas’d of unpeaceful thoughts espy?

O fields! O woods! when shall I be made

The happy tenant of your shade?

Here’s the spring-head of Pleasure’s flood:

Here’s wealthy Nature’s treasury,

Where all the riches lie that she

Has coin’d and stamp’d for good.

Pride and ambition here

Only in far-fetch’d metaphors appear;

Here nought but winds can hurtful murmurs scatter,

And nought but Echo flatter.

The gods, when they descended, hither

From heaven did always choose their way:

And therefore we may boldly say

That ’tis the way too thither.

How happy here should I

And one dear she live, and embracing die!

She who is all the world, and can exclude

In deserts solitude.

I should have then this only fear:

Lest men, when they my pleasures see,

Should hither throng to live like me,

And so make a city here.

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• Яков Полонский – Цветок by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Чтобы песня моя разлилась как поток by Яков Полонский
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• Яков Полонский – Белая ночь by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – А. Н. Майкову (ответ на стихи его: Полонский! Суждено опять судьбою злою) by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Последний вздох by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – После праздника by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Полонский здесь не без привета by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Поэт и гражданин, он призван был учить by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Поцелуй by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – По горам две хмурых тучи by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Письмо by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Песня циганки by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Памяти В. М. Гаршина by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Памяти С. Я. Надсона by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Откуда by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Орел и голубка by Яков Полонский

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