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- Don Marquis
- My Papa’s Waltz
Solitude
LAUGH, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth, But has trouble enough of it's own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. Don MarquisTHE TOMCATAt midnight in the alleyA tomcat comes to wail, And he chants the hate of a million years As he swings his snaky tail. Malevolent, bony, brindled, Tiger and devil and bard, His eyes are coals from the middle of hell And his heart is black and hard. He twists and crouches and capers And bares his curved sharp claws, And he sings to the stars of the jungle nights Ere cities were, or laws. Beast from a world primeval, He and his leaping clan, When the blotched red moon leers over the roofs, Give voice to their scorn of man. He will lie on a rug tomorrow And lick his silk fur, And veil the brute in his yellow eyes, And play he’s tame, and purr. But at midnight in the alley He will crouch again and wail, And beat the time for his demon’s song With the swing of his demon’s tail. Theodore Roethke My Papa’s WaltzThe whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt. W.H. Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one: Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good. John Masefield Download 0.59 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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