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Название: The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

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СКАЧАТЬ metaphysical poets as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing:

      "'No Indian prince has to his palace

       More followers than a thief to the gallows.'"

      To Science

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      Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

       Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

       Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,

       Vulture, whose wings are dull realities

       How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

       Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

       To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

       Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing!

       Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?

       And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

       To seek a shelter in some happier star?

       Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

       The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

       The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

       Private reasons—some of which have reference to the sin of plagiarism, and others to the date of Tennyson's first poems—have induced me, after some hesitation, to republish these, the crude compositions of my earliest boyhood. They are printed verbatim—without alteration from the original edition—the date of which is too remote to be judiciously acknowledged.—E. A. P. (1845).

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       I

      O! nothing earthly save the ray

       (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye,

       As in those gardens where the day

       Springs from the gems of Circassy—

       O! nothing earthly save the thrill

       Of melody in woodland rill—

       Or (music of the passion-hearted)

       Joy's voice so peacefully departed

       That like the murmur in the shell,

       Its echo dwelleth and will dwell—

       O! nothing of the dross of ours—

       Yet all the beauty—all the flowers

       That list our Love, and deck our bowers—

       Adorn yon world afar, afar—

       The wandering star.

       'Twas a sweet time for Nesace—for there

       Her world lay lolling on the golden air,

       Near four bright suns—a temporary rest—

       An oasis in desert of the blest.

       Away away—'mid seas of rays that roll

       Empyrean splendor o'er th' unchained soul—

       The soul that scarce (the billows are so dense)

       Can struggle to its destin'd eminence—

       To distant spheres, from time to time, she rode,

       And late to ours, the favour'd one of God—

       But, now, the ruler of an anchor'd realm,

       She throws aside the sceptre—leaves the helm,

       And, amid incense and high spiritual hymns,

       Laves in quadruple light her angel limbs.

       Now happiest, loveliest in yon lovely Earth,

       Whence sprang the "Idea of Beauty" into birth,

       (Falling in wreaths thro' many a startled star,

       Like woman's hair 'mid pearls, until, afar,

       It lit on hills Achaian, and there dwelt),

       She look'd into Infinity—and knelt.

       Rich clouds, for canopies, about her curled—

       Fit emblems of the model of her world—

       Seen but in beauty—not impeding sight—

       Of other beauty glittering thro' the light—

       A wreath that twined each starry form around,

       And all the opal'd air in color bound.

       All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed

       Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head