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Bessie Rayner Parkes (Бесси Рейнер Паркс) Firelight 'TIS dark, and I fancy A ring at the bell,-- My heart leapeth up With a throb and a swell; Is it a footstep Away in the street,-- Or only the sound Of my own heart's beat? Silence is living And breathes in my ear; Twilight is long In this Spring of the year: Still she is lingering, Tender and wan;-- Deeper--and deeper! Now she is gone! Brooding alone With my head on my hand; Watching the fall Of the fast-flowing sand, The sand which falls ever When others drop tears, To measure the fall Of my fast-flowing years;-- Brooding alone With my eyes on the fire, The tick of the clock Rises higher and higher; Nervously catching The beat of my breast, And changing its note Like a creature possessed. Articulate meanings It struggles to speak, Ere one can catch them They shiver and break;-- My books on the shelf, And my prints on the wall, A fantastical goblin Makes sport of them all! My shadow is dancing, The thing that is I Comes nearer, grows larger In wavering by: I think it will utter My thought or my name, Seizing something of life In this flickering flame! I seem to be wrapped In the shadow of Death; To tremble and faint At the ice of its breath; I know not whence comes it, What name it deserves, Of God or the Devil, Or only the nerves! But if he would come It would vanish away, He would call back my soul With the warm voice of day; The fear and the terror, They could not abide; I know he is true When he sits by my side. He will bring the new book, He will bring the new thought, He will leave me the richer For all he has brought; He will fill my heart fuller, And widen its scope, And leave me for comfort Both memory and hope. The dread is recoiling, There's health in the air, The clock strikes the hour, I awake!--I am--where?-- In the land of the Living, Where happy hearts be, And, oh! 'tis my love Who is coming to me! Bessie Rayner Parkes's other poems:
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