WASTED HOURS

How many buds in this warm light

Have burst out laughing into leaves!

And shall a day like this be gone

Before I seek the wood that holds

The richest music known?

Too many times have nightingales

Wasted their passion on my sleep,

And brought repentance soon:

But this one night I'll seek the woods,

The nightingale, and moon.

Georgian poetry, 1920-22 · 第 53 / 188 题