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Joseph Rodman Drake (Джозеф Родман Дрейк)


To Eva


A beam upon the myrtle fell
   From dewy evening’s purest sky,
’Twas like the glance I love so well,
   Dear Eva, from thy moonlight eye.

I looked around the summer grove,
   On every tree its lustre shone;
For all had felt that look of love
   The silly myrtle deemed its own.

Eva! behold thine image there,
   As fair, as false thy glances fall;
But who the worthless smile would share
   That sheds its light alike on all.



Joseph Rodman Drake's other poems:
  1. To a Lady with a Withered Violet
  2. Song (Oh! go to sleep, my baby dear)
  3. Lines Written on Leaving New Rochelle
  4. To Sarah
  5. Fragment


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