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Helen Hunt Jackson (Хелен Хант Джексон)


Freedom


WHAT freeman knoweth freedom? Never he
Whose father's father through long lives have reigned
O'er kingdoms which mere heritage attained.
Though from his youth to age he roam as free
As winds, he dreams not freedom's ecstacy.
But he whose birth was in a nation chained
For centuries; where every breath was drained
From breasts of slaves which knew not there could be
Such thing as freedom,--he beholds the light
Burst, dazzling; though the glory blind his sight
He knows the joy. Fools laugh because he reels
And weilds confusedly his infant will;
The wise man watching with a heart that feels
Says: "Cure for freedom's harms is freedom still."



Helen Hunt Jackson's other poems:
  1. Best
  2. Poppies on the Wheat
  3. The End of Harvest
  4. Songs of Battle
  5. Morn


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

  • Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) Freedom ("Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights") 1880
  • George Russell (Джордж Расселл) Freedom ("I WILL not follow you, my bird")
  • Ambrose Bierce (Амброз Бирс) Freedom ("Freedom, as every schoolboy knows")
  • Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лампмен) Freedom ("Out of the heart of the city begotten")

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