Лжи на свете нет меры,
То ж лукавство да то ж.
Где ни ступишь, тут ложь;
Скроюсь вечно в пещеры,
В мир не помня дверей:
Люди злее зверей.
Я сокроюсь от мира,
В мире дружба - лишь лесть
И при...
Суетен будешь
Ты, человек,
Если забудешь
Краткий свой век.
Время проходит,
Время летит,
Время проводит
Все, что ни льстит.
Счастье, забава,
Светлость корон,
Пышность и слава -
Всё только со...
Belshazzar had a Letter --
He never had but one -
Belshazzar's Correspondent
Concluded and begun
In that immortal Copy
The Conscience of us all
Can read without its Glasses
On Revelation's Wall...
Let me not mar that perfect Dream
By an Auroral stain
But so adjust my daily Night
That it will come again...
...
Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone -
A Whip so small you could not see it
I've known
To lash the Magic Creature
Till it fell,
Yet that Whip's name
Too noble then to tell.
...
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry -
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll -
How frugal is the Chariot...
Rememberance has a Rear and Front -
'T is something like a House -
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse,
Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid -
Look to it by its Fathoms
...
We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies -
The Heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing
Did not ourselves the Cubit...
Title divine - is mine!
The Wife - without the Sign!
Acute Degree - conferred on me -
Empress of Calvary!
Royal - all but the Crown!
Betrothed - without the swoon
God sends us Women -
When you ...
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.
...
We outgrow love like other things
And put it in the Drawer -
Till it an Antique fashion shows -
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
...
I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way
The Stars about my Head I felt
About my Feet the Sea.
I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch -
This gave me that precarious Gait
...
Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage held but just Ourselves-
And Immortality.
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor, and my leis...
They say that 'Time assuages' -
Time never did assuage-
An actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age-
Time is a Test of Trouble,
But not a Remedy-
If such it prove, it p...
Each Life Converges to some Centre -
Expressed - or still -
Exists in every Human Nature
A Goal -
Embodied scarcely to itself- it may be-
Too fair
For Credibility's presumption
To mar-
Ado...
