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Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд)


A Dream


Was it a dream? We sail'd, I thought we sail'd,
Martin and I, down the green Alpine stream,
Border'd, each bank, with pines; the morning sun,
On the wet umbrage of their glossy tops,
On the red pinings of their forest-floor,
Drew a warm scent abroad; behind the pines
The mountain-skirts, with all their sylvan change
Of bright-leaf'd chestnuts and moss'd walnut-trees
And the frail scarlet-berried ash, began.
Swiss chalets glitter'd on the dewy slopes,
And from some swarded shelf, high up, there came
Notes of wild pastoral music--over all
Ranged, diamond-bright, the eternal wall of snow.
Upon the mossy rocks at the stream's edge,
Back'd by the pines, a plank-built cottage stood,
Bright in the sun; the climbing gourd-plant's leaves
Muffled its walls, and on the stone-strewn roof
Lay the warm golden gourds; golden, within,
Under the eaves, peer'd rows of Indian corn.
We shot beneath the cottage with the stream.
On the brown, rude-carved balcony, two forms
Came forth--Olivia's, Marguerite! and thine.
Clad were they both in white, flowers in their breast;
Straw hats bedeck'd their heads, with ribbons blue,
Which danced, and on their shoulders, fluttering, play'd.
They saw us, they conferred; their bosoms heaved,
And more than mortal impulse fill'd their eyes.
Their lips moved; their white arms, waved eagerly,
Flash'd once, like falling streams; we rose, we gazed.
One moment, on the rapid's top, our boat
Hung poised--and then the darting river of Life
(Such now, methought, it was), the river of Life,
Loud thundering, bore us by; swift, swift it foam'd,
Black under cliffs it raced, round headlands shone.
Soon the plank'd cottage by the sun-warm'd pines
Faded--the moss--the rocks; us burning plains,
Bristled with cities, us the sea received. 



Matthew Arnold's other poems:
  1. Religious Isolation
  2. Stanzas Composed at Carnac
  3. Calais Sands
  4. Heine’s Grave
  5. Written in Butler’s Sermons


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

  • William Allingham (Вильям Аллингам) A Dream ("I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night")
  • Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) A Dream ("Guid-Mornin' to our Majesty!") 1786
  • Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) A Dream ("Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)")
  • Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) A Dream ("Amid the mystic fields of Love")
  • Thomas Parnell (Томас Парнелл) A Dream ("Just when ye dead of night began to fail")
  • Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) A Dream ("In visions of the dark night")
  • Alice Cary (Элис Кэри) A Dream ("I DREAMED I had a plot of ground")
  • Stephen Phillips (Стивен Филлипс) A Dream ("MY dead love came to me, and said")
  • Bernard Barton (Бернард Бартон) A Dream ("A DREAM came lately in the hours")
  • Thomas Moore (Томас Мур) A Dream ("I thought this heart enkindled lay")
  • Letitia Landon (Летиция Лэндон) A Dream ("I was wand'ring in my sleep")
  • Mathilde Blind (Матильда Блайнд) A Dream ("Only a dream, a beautiful baseless dream")
  • Lucretia Davidson (Лукреция Дэвидсон) A Dream ("Methought, unwitting how the place I gained")

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