Henry Austin Dobson

Just for a space I met her –
Just for a day in the train!
It began when she feared it would wet her,
That tiniest spurtle of rain:…

“When there is Peace our land no more
Will be the land we knew of yore.”
Thus do our facile seers foretell
The truth that none can buy or sell…

Come live with me and be my Dear;
And till that happy bond shall lapse,
I'll set your Poutings in Brevier,
Your praises in the largest CAPS.There's Diamond-'tis for your Eyes;…

Fame is a food that dead men eat,—
I have no stomach for such meat.
In little light and narrow room,
They eat it in the silent tomb,…

When this old world was new,
Before the towns were made,
Love was a shepherd too.Clear-eyed as flowers men grew,
Of evil unafraid,…

'Ah, me, but it might have been!
Was there ever so dismal a fate?' -
Quoth the little blue mandarin.'Such a maid as was never seen!
She passed, though I cried to her 'Wait' -…

Друг старый - лучший! Я одну
Тебе отправил песню снова,
Обычной формы образцовой, -
Ты у неё бывал в плену.…