Post-Laureate Idyls, and Other Poems

Helena Modrzejewska jako Ofelia

Post-Laureate Idyls, and Other Poems – tomik wierszy amerykańskiego poety Oscara Faya Adamsa (1855-1919), opublikowany w 1886 w Bostonie nakładem oficyny D. Lothrop and Company. Zbiorek dzieli się na cykle Post-Laureate Idyls, lyrics, etc. i Sonnets. Zawiera też poematy A Tale of Tuscany i The Legend of the Golden Lotus. Z polskiego punktu widzenia jest interesujący z powodu dwóch wierszy poświęconych Helenie Modrzejewskiej, aktorce, która za oceanem zdobyła sławę: To Modjeska as Rosalind i To Modjeska as Julia of Verona. Oba są sonetami.

When from the poet's brain fair Arden's glades

Were peopled with the lightsome folk we know,

A shade of discontent was seen to grow

Upon his brow, as he through long decades

In vision saw this loveliest of his maids

By beardless boys enacted, and her show

Of maiden grace obscured and hidden so

In guise of youths half-won from boyish trades.

Soon changed the vision, and through centuries far

A group of women fair he then did see,

Whose hearts, one after other, were beguiled

By some Orlando's youth and bravery,

And in the throng, and radiant as a star,

On thee, the mighty Master, looking, smiled!

(To Modjeska as Rosalind)

Bibliografia

• Oscar Fay Adams: Post-Laureate Idyls, and Other Poems. babel.hathitrust.org, 1886. [dostęp 2017-04-23]. (ang.).