Philip Arthur Larkin (Филип Артур Ларкин)

Arrival

Morning, a glass door, flashes
Gold names off the new city,
Whose white shelves and domes travel
The slow sky all day.
I land to stay here;
And the windows flock open
And the curtains fly out like doves
And a past dries in a wind.

Now let me lie down, under
A wide-branched indifference,
Shovel-faces like pennies
Down the back of the mind,
Find voices coined to
An argot of motor-horns,
And let the cluttered-up houses
Keep their thick lives to themselves.

For this ignorance of me
Seems a kind of innocence.
Fast enough I shall wound it:
Let me breathe till then
Its milk-aired Eden,
Till my own life impound it-
Slow-falling; grey-veil-hung; a theft,
A style of dying only.

1. Mcmxiv
2. Love Songs in Age
3. Mr Bleaney
4. Coming
5. To Failure

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Arrival ("Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land")

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