William Wordsworth (Уильям Вордсворт)

The Faëry Chasm

No fiction was it of the antique age:
A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft,
Is of the very footmarks unbereft
Which tiny Elves impressed; - on that smooth stage
Dancing with all their brilliant equipage
In secret revels - haply after theft
Of some sweet Babe - Flower stolen, and coarse Weed left
For the distracted Mother to assuage
Her grief with, as she might! - But, where, oh! where
Is traceable a vestige of the notes
That ruled those dances wild in character? -
Deep underground? Or in the upper air,
On the shrill wind of midnight? or where floats
O'er twilight fields the autumnal gossamer? 

1. Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge: The Same
2. Nunnery Dell
3. The Glen of Loch Etive
4. In the Sound of Mull
5. For the Spot Where the Hermitage Stood on St. Herbert’s Island, Derwent Water

Распечатать (To print)

Количество обращений к стихотворению: 2741

Последние стихотворения

To English version