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William Watson (Уильям Уотсон)


To a Friend


CHAFING AT ENFORCED IDLENESS 
FROM INTERRUPTED HEALTH

Soon may the edict lapse, that on you lays
This dire compulsion of infertile days,
This hardest penal toil, reluctant rest!
Meanwhile I count you eminently blest,
Happy from labours heretofore well done,
Happy in tasks auspiciously begun.
For they are blest that have not much to rue—
That have not oft mis-heard the prompter's cue,
Stammered and stumbled and the wrong parts played,
And life a Tragedy of Errors made.



William Watson's other poems:
  1. Well He Slumbers, Greatly Slain
  2. And These - Are These Indeed the End
  3. Liberty Rejected
  4. The Russ at Kara
  5. On Exaggerated Deference to Foreign Literary Opinion


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

  • Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд) To a Friend ("Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?")
  • Anna Barbauld (Анна-Летиция Барбо) To a Friend ("May never more of pensive melancholy")
  • William Bowles (Уильям Боулз) To a Friend ("Go, then, and join the murmuring city's throng!")
  • William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) To a Friend ("Have you ne'er seen, my gentle Squire!")
  • Joseph Drake (Джозеф Дрейк) To a Friend ("Yes, faint was my applause and cold my praise")
  • James Fields (Джеймс Филдс) To a Friend ("Go, with a manly heart")
  • Richard Hovey (Ричард Хави) To a Friend ("ALL too grotesque our thoughts are sometimes")
  • Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) To a Friend ("I ask but one thing of you, only one")
  • James Lowell (Джеймс Лоуэлл) To a Friend ("One strip of bark may feed the broken tree")
  • John Pierpont (Джон Пирпонт) To a Friend ("Friend of my dark and solitary hour")
  • Caroline Fry (Wilson) (Каролина Фрай (Уилсон)) To a Friend ("Behold you the beam")

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