William Wordsworth (Уильям Вордсворт)

Roman Antiquities

   From the Roman Station at Old Penrith

HOW profitless the relics that we cull,
Troubling the last holds of ambitious Rome,
Unless they chasten fancies that presume
Too high, or idle agitations lull!
Of the world’s flatteries if the brain be full,
To have no seat for thought were better doom,
Like this old helmet, or the eyeless skull
Of him who gloried in its nodding plume.
Heaven out of view, our wishes what are they?
Our fond regrets tenacious in their grasp?
The sage’s theory? the poet’s lay?—
Mere fibulæ without a robe to clasp;
Obsolete lamps, whose light no time recalls;
Urns without ashes, tearless lachrymals!

1. In the Sound of Mull
2. Oxford, May 30, 1820
3. Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge: Continued
4. Inscription Intended for a Stone in the Grounds of Rydal Mount
5. The Kirk of Ulpha

Распечатать (Print)

Количество обращений к стихотворению: 1382

Последние стихотворения

To English version