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Эдгар Алан По

Лирика

POEMS

СТИХОТВОРЕНИЯ

1. SONG

I saw thee on thy bridal day

When a burning blush came o'er thee,

Though happiness around thee lay,

The world a'l love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light

(Whatever it might be)

Was all on Earth my aching sight

Of Loveliness could see.

That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame

As such it well may pass

Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame

In the breast of him, alas!

Who saw thee on that bridal day,

When that deep blush would come o'er thee,

Though happiness around thee lay,

The world all love before thee.

(1827-1845)

1. ПЕСНЯ

Я помню: ты в день брачный твой,

Как от стыда зарделась вдруг,

Хоть счастье было пред тобой,

И, весь любовь, мир цвел вокруг.

Лучистый блеск в твоих очах

(Что ни таила ты)

Был - все, что на земле, в мечтах,

Есть выше красоты!

Быть может, девичьим стыдом

Румянец был - как знать!

Но пламенем он вспыхнул в том,

Кто мог его понять,

Кто знал тебя в день брачный твой,

Когда могла ты вспыхнуть вдруг,

Хоть счастье было пред тобой,

И, весь любовь, мир цвел вокруг.

(1924)

Перевод В. Брюсова

2. DREAMS

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!

My spirit not awak'ning till the beam

Of an Eternity should bring the morrow:

Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,

'Twere better than the dull reality

Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,

And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,

A chaos of deep passion from his birth!

But should it be - that dream eternally

Continuing - as dreams have been to me

In my young boyhood - should it thus be given,

'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven!

For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright

In the summer sky; in dreamy fields of light,

And left unheedingly my very heart

In climes of mine imagining - apart

From mine own home, with beings that have been

Of mine own thought - what more could I have seen?

'Twas once and _only_ once and the wild hour

From my remembrance shall not pass - some power

Or spell had bound me - 'twas the chilly wind

Came o'er me in the night and left behind