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George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт))


Peace


SWEET Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,
                      Let me once know. 
          I sought thee in a secret cave, 
                And ask'd, if Peace were there. 
A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:
                      Go seek elsewhere.

I did; and going did a rainbow note:
                      Surely, thought I, 
          This is the lace of Peace's coat: 
           I will search out the matter. 
But while I lookt, the clouds immediately
                      Did break and scatter.

Then went I to a garden, and did spy
                      A gallant flower, 
          The crown Imperial: Sure, said I, 
                Peace at the root must dwell. 
But when I digg'd, I saw a worm devour
                      What show'd so well.

At length I met a rev'rend good old man,
                      Whom when for Peace 
          I did demand; he thus began: 
                There was a Prince of old 
At Salem dwelt, who liv'd with good increase
                      Of flock and fold.

He sweetly liv'd; yet sweetness did not save
                      His life from foes. 
           But after death out of his grave 
                 There sprang twelve stalks of wheat: 
Which many wondring at, got some of those
                      To plant and set.

It prosper'd strangely, and did soon disperse
                      Through all the earth: 
          For they that taste it do rehearse, 
           That virtue lies therein, 
A secret virtue bringing peace and mirth
                      By flight of sin.

Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,
                      And grows for you; 
Make bread of it: and that repose
           And Peace which ev'ry where 
With so much earnestness you do pursue,
                       Is only there. 



George Herbert's other poems:
  1. The Thanksgiving
  2. The Search
  3. Sin's Round
  4. Love (Immortal Love, authour of this great frame)
  5. The Temper


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

  • Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) Peace ("Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour")
  • William Yeats (Уильям Йейтс) Peace ("AH, that Time could touch a form")
  • Gerard Hopkins (Джерард Хопкинс) Peace ("When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut")
  • Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) Peace ("My Soul, there is a country")
  • Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Peace ("I am as awful as my brother War")
  • Robert Anderson (Роберт Андерсон) Peace ("Now, God be prais'd! we've peace at last")
  • Robert Bloomfield (Роберт Блумфилд) Peace ("Halt! ye Legions, sheathe your Steel")
  • Charles Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Peace ("There is silence in the evening when the long days cease") December 1912
  • Gerald Massey (Джеральд Масси) Peace ("Yes, Peace is beautiful, and I do yearn")
  • Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) Peace ("No more to watch by Night's eternal shore")
  • Sara Teasdale (Сара Тисдейл) Peace ("PEACE flows into me")
  • Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Peace ("Two dwellings, Peace, are thine")
  • Albery Whitman (Элбери Уитмен) Peace ("As the raindrop on a flower")

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