1 min read
Слушать(AI)The Taming of the Falcon
The bird sits spelled upon the lithe brown wrist Of yonder turbaned fowler, who had lamed No feather limb, but the winged spirit tamed With his compelling eye.
He need not trust The silken coil, not set the thick-limed snare;
He lures the wanderer with his steadfast gaze,
It shrinks, it quails, it trembles yet obeys.
And, lo! he has enslaved the thing of air.
The fixed, insistent human will is lord Of all the earth;—but in the awful sky Reigns absolute, unreached by deed or word Above creation; through eternity,
Outshining the sun's shield, the lightening's sword,
The might of Allah's unaverted eye.
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish ca
Comments
You need to be signed in to write comments
Other author posts
Admetus To my friend Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who could beard the lion in his lair, To bind him for a girl, and tame the boar, And drive these beasts before his chariot, Might wed Alcestis
From One Augur to Another
So, Calchas, on the sacred Palatine, You thought of Mopsus, and o'er wastes of sea A flower brought your message I divine (Through my deep art) the kindly mockery That played about your lips and in your eyes,
Age And Death
Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend, Embrace me, fold me to thy broad, soft breast Life has grown strange and cold, but thou dost Mild eyes of blessing wooing to my rest
To RWE
As when a father dies, his children draw About the empty hearth, their loss to cheat With uttered praise & love, & oft repeat His all-familiar words with whispered awe The honored habit of his daily law, Not for his sake, but the...
