A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning – cykl liryczny angielskiego poety Algernona Charlesa Swinburne’a[1][2], opublikowany w tomie Astrophel and Other Poems w 1894. Jest on poświęcony zmarłemu w 1889 poecie i dramaturgowi Robertowi Browningowi.
- He held no dream worth waking: so he said,
- He who stands now on death's triumphal steep,
- Awakened out of life wherein we sleep
- And dream of what he knows and sees, being dead.
- But never death for him was dark or dread:
- 'Look forth' he bade the soul, and fear not. Weep,
- All ye that trust not in his truth, and keep
- Vain memory's vision of a vanished head
- As all that lives of all that once was he
- Save that which lightens from his word : but we,
- Who, seeing the sunset-coloured waters roll,
- Yet know the sun subdued not of the sea,
- Nor weep nor doubt that still the spirit is whole,
- And life and death but shadows of the soul.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
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Bibliografia
- Algernon Charles Swinburne: Astrophel and Other Poems. Archive.org, 1894. s. 136-142. [dostęp 2017-03-03]. (ang.).