Wisdom

[ermenengilda]

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I have looked Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.

— Sara Teasdale

Comments

[laura-corolla.livejournal.com]

мудрые строки! правда, которая чуточку горчит :)

А у нас вчера был дождь и я вспоминала ее

[grainne-l.livejournal.com]

There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

[ermenengilda.livejournal.com]

И в этих стихах -- вся она. Я ее очень люблю.