Christina Rossetti «Soeur Louise De La Misericorde»
Soeur Louise De La Misericorde (1674.) I have desired, and I have been desired; But now the days are over of desire, Now dust and dying embers mock my fire; Where is the hire for which my life was hired? Oh vanity of vanities, desire! Longing and love, pangs of a perished pleasure, Longing and love, a disenkindled fire, And memory a bottomless gulf of mire, And love a fount of tears outrunning measure; Oh vanity of vanities, desire! Now from my heart, love’s deathbed, trickles, trickles, Drop by drop slowly, drop by drop of fire, The dross of life, … Читать далее →