irinaofr
Member
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2007
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Russian Federation
For the first twenty years since yesterday
I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away;
For forty more I fed on favors past,
And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last.
Tears drowned one hundred, and sighs blew out two,
A thousand, I did neither think nor do,
Or not divide, all being one thought of you,
Or in a thousand more forgot that too.
Yet call not this long life, but think that I
Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die?
I can't understand this "....that thou wouldst they might last".
Is it a mistake there?
I read it as "....that you would they might last" and it doesn't sound right.
What would you say, please?
Thank you.
I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away;
For forty more I fed on favors past,
And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last.
Tears drowned one hundred, and sighs blew out two,
A thousand, I did neither think nor do,
Or not divide, all being one thought of you,
Or in a thousand more forgot that too.
Yet call not this long life, but think that I
Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die?
I can't understand this "....that thou wouldst they might last".
Is it a mistake there?
I read it as "....that you would they might last" and it doesn't sound right.
What would you say, please?
Thank you.