Bryan Waller Procter (Брайан Уоллер Проктер)
Life
WE are born; we laugh; we weep;
We love; we droop; we die!
Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep?
Why do we live, or die?
Who knows that secret deep?
Alas, not I!
Why doth the violet spring
Unseen by human eye?
Why do the radiant seasons bring
Sweet thoughts that quickly fly?
Why do our fond hearts cling
To things that die?
We toil,—through pain and wrong;
We fight,—and fly;
We love; we lose; and then, ere long,
Stone-dead we lie.
O life! is all thy song
“Endure and—die”?
Bryan Waller Procter's other poems:- Golden-Tressed Adelaide
- Sit Down, Sad Soul
- In France
- The New-Born Baby's Song
- The Watch
Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):
Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Life ("As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain") Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Life ("LIFE, believe, is not a dream") Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Life ("Life's a name") Anna Barbauld (Анна-Летиция Барбо) Life ("Life! I Know Not What Thou Art") Francis Bacon (Фрэнсис Бэкон) Life ("THE world's a bubble, and the life of man") William Bryant (Уильям Брайант) Life ("Oh Life! I breathe thee in the breeze") Florence Coates (Флоренс Коутс) Life ("Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay") Paul Dunbar (Пол Данбар) Life ("A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in") James Johnson (Джеймс Джонсон) Life ("Out of the infinite sea of eternity") Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Life ("LET me but live my life from year to year") Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Life ("IT is not life upon Thy gifts to live") Edith Wharton (Эдит Уортон) Life ("LIFE, like a marble block, is given to all") Mary Robinson (Мэри Робинсон) Life ("”What is this world?thy school, O misery!") Abram Ryan (Абрам Райан) Life ("A baby played with the surplice sleeve")
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