The Story of Judeth (poemat dramatyczny Williama Vicarsa Lawrance’a)


The Story of Judeth - poetic work of the American lawyer, prose writer and poet William Vicars Lawrance, published in the volume The Story of Judeth: a Tale of Bethany, with Poems of Home, Heart, and Hearth published in 1889 in Cambridge. The work is a broad, 350-page epic in the form of a dramatic poem, based on the Gospel tale of Lazarus from Bethany. It was written in an even rhymed jambic pentameter (ten-syllable). And this the daylight, this the balmy air We call the source of life! How sweet, how fair, Are all created things of Nature! See, Where soars yon bird the ether light and free! It seems a mote floating afar and high, In this magnificently dreamy sky. I would not know it were a bird, but guess — If guessing were my mood, not seriousness — It were a knotted skein of gossamer Floating from thread intangible, afar, Yet anchored to the earth, save that now faint And throbbing through the air, more like a plaint From heart care-sore than note of joy, his song Floats downward to my ear. Bibliography

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