English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Catch. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Catch When roads are mired with ice and snow, And the air of morn is crisp with rime; When the holly hangs by the mistletoe, And bells ring in the CHRISTMAS time: - It’s – Saddle, my Heart, and ride away, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Dirge. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Dirge I. Life has fled; she is dead, Sleeping in the flow’ry vale Where the fleeting shades are shed Ghost-like o’er her features pale. Lay her ‘neath the violets wild, Lay her like a dreaming child ‘Neath the waving grass […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Lullaby. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Lullaby I. In her wimple of wind and her slippers of sleep The twilight comes like a little goose-girl, Herding her owls with many”tu-whoos,” Her little brown owls in the woodland deep, Where dimly she walks in her whispering shoes, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Valentine. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Valentine My life is grown a witchcraft place Through gazing on thy form and face. Now ‘t is thy Smile’s soft sorcery That makes my soul a melody. Now ‘t is thy Frown, that comes and goes, That makes […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Ambition. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Ambition Now to my lips lift then some opiate Of black forgetfulness! while in thy gaze Still lures the loveless beauty that betrays, And in thy mouth the music that is hate. No promise more hast thou to make me wait; No […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Yellow Rose. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Yellow Rose The old gate clicks, and down the walk, Between clove-pink and hollyhock, Still young of face though gray of lock, Among her garden’s flowers she goes At evening’s close, Deep in her hair a yellow rose. The old […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Aprilian. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Aprilian I. Come with me where April twilights Wigwam blue the April hills; Where the shadows and the high lights Swarm the woods that Springtime fills. Tents where dwell the tribes of beauty, Tasseled scouts whose camp-fires glow Over leagues of […]
English Poetry. Charlotte Brontё. Apostasy. Шарлотта Бронте.
Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Apostasy THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call not back a word. Point not to thy Madonna, Priest, Thy sightless saint of stone; She cannot, from this burning breast, Wring one […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. At Last. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) At Last What shall be said to him, Now he is dead? Now that his eyes are dim, Low lies his head? What shall be said to him, Now he is dead? One word to whisper of Low in his ear; […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. At the End of the Road. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) At the End of the Road This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain. Here by the road […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Authorities. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Authorities The unpretentious flowers of the woods, That rise in bright and banded brotherhoods, Waving us welcome, and with kisses sweet Laying their lives down underneath our feet, Lesson my soul more than the tomes of man, Packed with the lore of […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Avalon. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Avalon I Dreamed my soul went wandering in An island dim with mystery; An island that, because of sin, No mortal eye shall ever see. And while I walked, one came, unseen, And gazed into my eyes: ah me! Her presence […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Beech Blooms. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Beech Blooms The wild oxalis Among the valleys Lifts up its chalice Of pink and pearl; And, balsam-breathing, From out their sheathing, The myriad wreathing Green leaves uncurl. The whole world brightens With spring, that lightens The foot that frightens The […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Berrying. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Berrying I. My love went berrying Where brooks were merrying And wild wings ferrying Heaven’s amethyst; The wildflowers blessed her, My dearest Hester, The winds caressed her, The sunbeams kissed. II. I followed, carrying Her basket; varying Fond hopes […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. By the Summer Sea. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) By the Summer Sea Sunlight and shrill cicada and the low, Slow, sleepy kissing of the sea and shore, And rumor of the wind. The morning wore A sullen face of fog that lifted slow, Letting her eyes gleam through of grayest […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Clouds. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Clouds All through the tepid Summer night The starless sky had poured a cool Monotony of pleasant rain In music beautiful. And for an hour I’d sat to watch Clouds moving on majestic feet, Had heard down avenues of night Their […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Corncob Jones. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Corncob Jones An Oldham-County Weather Philosopher. “Who is Corncob Jones?” you say. Beateningest man and talkingest: Talk and talk th’ enduring day, Never even stop to rest, Keep on talking that a-way, Talk you dead, or do his best. We were […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Dead Sea Fruit. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Dead Sea Fruit All things have power to hold us back. Our very hopes build up a wall Of doubt, whose shadow stretches black O’er all. The dreams, that helped us once, become Dread disappointments, that oppose Dead eyes to ours, […]
English Poetry. Charlotte Brontё. Regret. Шарлотта Бронте.
Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Regret Long ago I wished to leave “The house where I was born;” Long ago I used to grieve, My home seemed so forlorn. In other years, its silent rooms Were filled with haunting fears; Now, their very memory comes O’ercharged with tender tears. […]
English Poetry. William Shakespeare. Sonnet 80. O how I faint when I of you do write. Уильям Шекспир. Сонет 80. Мне изменяет голос мой и стих
William Shakespeare (Уильям Шекспир) Sonnet 80. O how I faint when I of you do write O how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might, To make me tongue-tied speaking […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Dogtown. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Dogtown Far as the eye can see the land is grey, And desolation sits among the stones Looking on ruin who, from rocks like bones, Stares with a dead face at the dying day. Mounds, where the barberry and bay hold sway, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Echo. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Echo Dweller in hollow places, hills and rocks, Daughter of Silence and old Solitude, Tip-toe she stands within her cave or wood, Her only life the noises that she mocks. Madison Julius Cawein’s other poems: After a Night of Rain Annisquam At […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Failure. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Failure There are some souls Whose lot it is to set their hearts on goals That adverse Fate controls. While others win With little labor through life’s dust and din, And lord-like enter in Immortal gates; And, of Success the […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. For the Old. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) For the Old These are the things I pray Heaven send us still, To blow the ashes of the years away, Or keep aglow forever ‘neath their gray The fire that warms when Life’s old house grows chill: First Faith, that gazed […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Fifteenth of April. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Fifteenth of April TO A.L. Pallid saffron glows the broken stubble, Brimmed with silver lie the ruts, Purple the ploughed hill; Down a sluice with break and bubble Hollow falls the rill; Falls and spreads and searches, Where, beyond the […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. At Scarboro’ Beach. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) At Scarboro’ Beach The wave is over the foaming reef Leaping alive in the sun, Seaward the opal sails are blown Vanishing one by one. ’Tis leagues around the blue sea curve To the sunny coast of Spain, And the ships […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. From the Farm on the Hill. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) From the Farm on the Hill TO A.P.S. The night wind moves the gloom In the shadowy basswood; Mysteriously the leaves sway and sing; So slow, so tender is the wind, The slender elm-tree Is hardly stirred. The sky is […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. An Impromptu. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) An Impromptu The stars are in the ebon sky, Burning, gold, alone; The wind roars over the rolling earth, Like water over a stone. We are like things in a river-bed The stream runs over, They see the iris, and arrowhead, […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Silence of Love. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Silence of Love My heart would need the earth, My voice would need the sea, To only tell the one half How dear you are to me. And if I had the winds, The stars and the planets as well, […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. For Remembrance. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) For Remembrance It would be sweet to think when we are old Of all the pleasant days that came to pass, That here we took the berries from the grass, There charmed the bees with pans, and smoke unrolled, And spread the […]
English Poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Epitaph. Перси Биши Шелли. Эпитафия
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Перси Биши Шелли) Epitaph These are two friends whose lives were undivided; So let their memory be, now they have glided Under the grave; let not their bones be parted, For their two hearts in life were single-hearted. 1822 Перевод на русский язык Эпитафия Здесь […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Hill Path. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Hill Path TO H.D.S. Are the little breezes blind, They that push me as they pass? Do they search the tangled grass For some path they want to find? Take my fingers, little wind; You are all alone, and I […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. A Little Song. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) A Little Song The sunset in the rosy west Burned soft and high; A shore-lark fell like a stone to his nest In the waving rye. A wind came over the garden beds From the dreamy lawn, The pansies nodded their […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Frost in May. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Frost in May March set heel upon the flowers, Trod and trampled them for hours: But when April’s bugles rang, Up their starry legions sprang, Radiant in the sun-shot showers. April went her frolic ways, Arm in arm with happy days: […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Her Portrait. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Her Portrait Were I an artist, Lydia, I Would paint you as you merit, Not as my eyes, but dreams, descry; Not in the flesh, but spirit. The canvas I would paint you on Should be a bit of heaven; My […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hylas. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Hylas The cuckoo-sorrel paints with pink The green page of the meadow-land Around a pool where thrushes drink As from a hollowed hand. A hill, long-haired with leathered grass Combed by the strong incessant wind, Looks down upon the pool’s pale glass […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In Autumn. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) In Autumn I. Sunflowers wither and lilies die, Poppies are pods of seeds; The first red leaves on the pathway lie, Like blood of a heart that bleeds. Weary alway will it be to-day, Weary and wan and wet; Dawn […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Storm. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) In the Storm I. Over heaven clouds are drifted; In the trees the wind-witch cries; By her sieve the rain is sifted, And the clouds at times are rifted By her mad broom as she flies. Love, there’s lightning in the […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. La Beale Isoud. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) La Beale Isoud I. With bloodshot eyes the morning rose Upon a world of gloom and tears; A kindred glance queen Isoud shows - Come night, come morn, cease not her fears. The fog-clouds whiten all the vale, The sunlight draws […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Lincoln. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Lincoln I. Yea, this is he, whose name is synonym Of all that’s noble, though but lowly born; Who took command upon a stormy morn When few had hope. Although uncouth of limb, Homely of face and gaunt, but never grim, […]