English Poetry. Ebenezer Jones. My Wife and Child, Come Close to Me. Эбенизер Джонс.
Ebenezer Jones (Эбенизер Джонс) * * * My wife and child, come close to me, The world to us is a stormy sea; With your hands in mine, if your eyes but shine, I care not how wild the storm may be. For the fiercest wind […]
English Poetry. William Schwenck Gilbert. Songs of a Savoyard. The Highly Respectable Gondolier. Уильям Швенк Гильберт.
William Schwenck Gilbert (Уильям Швенк Гильберт) Songs of a Savoyard. The Highly Respectable Gondolier I stole the Prince, and I brought him here, And left him, gaily prattling With a highly respectable Gondolier, Who promised the Royal babe to rear, And teach him the trade of a timoneer […]
English Poetry. William Schwenck Gilbert. Songs of a Savoyard. The Coming By-and-By. Уильям Швенк Гильберт.
William Schwenck Gilbert (Уильям Швенк Гильберт) Songs of a Savoyard. The Coming By-and-By Sad is that woman’s lot who, year by year, Sees, one by one, her beauties disappear; As Time, grown weary of her heart-drawn sighs, Impatiently begins to “dim her eyes”!— Herself compelled, in life’s uncertain […]
English Poetry. William Schwenck Gilbert. Songs of a Savoyard. The Disagreeable Man. Уильям Швенк Гильберт.
William Schwenck Gilbert (Уильям Швенк Гильберт) Songs of a Savoyard. The Disagreeable Man If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I’m a genuine philanthropist—all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow-creatures, I […]
English Poetry. Lewis Carroll. King-Fisher Song. Льюис Кэрролл. Простофиля и Простокваша
Lewis Carroll (Льюис Кэрролл) King-Fisher Song King Fisher courted Lady Bird – Sing Beans, sing Bones, sing Butterflies! ‘Find me my match,’ he said, ‘With such a noble head – With such a beard, as white as curd – With such expressive eyes!’ ‘Yet pins […]
English Poetry. Lewis Carroll. The Deserted Parks. Льюис Кэрролл. Покинутые парки
Lewis Carroll (Льюис Кэрролл) The Deserted Parks ‘Solitudinem faciunt: Parcum appellant.’ MUSEUM! loveliest building of the plain. Where Cherwell winds towards the distant main; How often have I loitered o’er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared the scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The […]
English Poetry. George Herbert. Providence. Джордж Герберт (Херберт).
George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) Providence O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through whom my fingers bend To hold my quill? shall they not do thee right? Of all the creatures both in sea […]
English Poetry. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall. The Lovers of Marchaid. Марджори Пиктхолл.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) The Lovers of Marchaid Dominic came riding down, sworded, straight and splendid, Drave his hilt against her door, flung a golden chain. Said: ‘I’ll teach your lips a song sweet as his that’s ended, Ere the white rose call the bee, the […]
English Poetry. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall. Thoughts. Марджори Пиктхолл.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) Thoughts I gave my thoughts a golden peach, A silver citron tree; They clustered dumbly out of reach And would not sing for me. I built my thoughts a roof of rush, A little byre beside; They left my music to […]
English Poetry. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall. The Chosen. Марджори Пиктхолл.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) The Chosen CALLED to a way too high for me, I lean Out from my narrow window o’er the street, and know the fields I cannot see are green, And guess the songs I cannot hear are sweet. Break up the […]
English Poetry. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall. Quiet. Марджори Пиктхолл.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) Quiet COME not the earliest petal here, but only Wind, cloud, and star, Lovely and far, Make it less lonely. Few are the feet that seek her here, but sleeping Thoughts sweet as flowers Linger for hours, Things winged, yet weeping. […]
English Poetry. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall. Fame. Марджори Пиктхолл.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) Fame HAVE I played fellowship with night, to see The allied armies break our gates at dawn And let our general in ? By Bacchus, no ! I have not left my stall, sir, I’m too poor For lazy prentices to hand […]
English Poetry. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall. Bartimeus Grown Old. Марджори Пиктхолл.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) Bartimeus Grown Old YEA, I am he that dwelt beside this tomb. I was a child. God smote me from the sun. A little while, I had forgot to run Under the rain-sweet roof of almond bloom. I had forgotten summer, and […]
English Poetry. Emily Jane Pfeiffer. Transfiguration. Эмили Джейн Пфайффер.
Emily Jane Pfeiffer (Эмили Джейн Пфайффер) Transfiguration Poor, troubled heart, if thou would’st find relief, And think’st thy woe were eas’d if it were heard, Go, ‘prentice thee to that sad-colour’d bird, And learn to make the world in love with grief. Sing as he sings, and […]
English Poetry. Emily Jane Pfeiffer. A Protest. Эмили Джейн Пфайффер.
Emily Jane Pfeiffer (Эмили Джейн Пфайффер) A Protest This is the sabbath season of the year, When summer silence falleth on the earth, — When truce hath come to husbandry and mirth, To mower’s scythe and wanton wood-notes clear. The world is still, as if with […]
English Poetry. Christopher Morley. Secret Laughter. Кристофер Морли.
Christopher Morley (Кристофер Морли) Secret Laughter “I had a secret laughter.” Walter de la Mare. There is a secret laughter That often comes to me, And though I go about my work As humble as can be, There is no prince or prelate I envy—no, […]
English Poetry. Christopher Morley. Bayberry Candles. Кристофер Морли.
Christopher Morley (Кристофер Морли) Bayberry Candles Dear sweet, when dusk comes up the hill, The fire leaps high with golden prongs; I place along the chimneysill The tiny candles of my songs. And though unsteadily they burn, As evening shades from grey to blue Like candles they […]
English Poetry. George Herbert. The World. Джордж Герберт (Херберт). Мир
George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) The World Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs did support the frame, Whereas they were supported by the same; But Wisdom quickly swept them all away. The Pleasure […]
English Poetry. Christopher Morley. To the Little House. Кристофер Морли.
Christopher Morley (Кристофер Морли) To the Little House Dear little house, dear shabby street, Dear books and beds and food to eat! How feeble words are to express The facets of your tenderness. How white the sun comes through the pane! In tinkling music drips the rain! […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 14. Weal and Woe. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 14. Weal and Woe O highest, strongest, sweetest woman-soul! Thou holdest in the compass of thy grace All the strange fate and passion of thy race; Of the old, primal curse thou knowest the […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 13. After Many Days. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 13. After Many Days Dear heart, I would that after many days, When we are gone, true lovers in a book Might find these faithful songs of ours. “O look!” I hear him murmur while he straightway […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 12. “My Songs Are All of Thee, What Tho’ I Sing”. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 12. “My Songs Are All of Thee, What Tho’ I Sing” My songs are all of thee, what tho’ I sing Of morning when the stars are yet in sight, Of evening, or the melancholy night, […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. The Parcae; or, Three Dainty Destinies: the Armilet. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) The Parcae; or, Three Dainty Destinies: the Armilet Three lovely sisters working were, As they were closely set, Of soft and dainty maiden-hair, A curious Armilet. I, smiling, ask’d them what they did, Fair Destinies all three? Who told me they had drawn […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Barley-Break; or, Last in Hell. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Barley-Break; or, Last in Hell We two are last in hell; what may we fear To be tormented or kept pris’ners here I Alas! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We’ll wish in hell we had been last and first. Robert Herrick’s […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. To Silvia to Wed. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) To Silvia to Wed Let us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wed; And loving lie in one devoted bed. Thy watch may stand, my minutes fly post haste; No sound calls back the year that once is past. Then, sweetest Silvia, let’s […]
English Poetry. John Codrington Bampfylde. Sonnet. On the Morning. Джон Кодрингтон Бампфилд.
John Codrington Bampfylde (Джон Кодрингтон Бампфилд) Sonnet. On the Morning Rings the shrill peal of dawn, gay Chanticleer Thrice warning that the Day–star climbs on high, And pales his beam as Phebus’ car draws nigh. Now, ere the lawns or distant cribs appear, Or, ere the Crows from […]
English Poetry. John Codrington Bampfylde. Sonnet to the Redbreast. Джон Кодрингтон Бампфилд.
John Codrington Bampfylde (Джон Кодрингтон Бампфилд) Sonnet to the Redbreast WHEN that the fields put on their gay attire, Thou silent sitt’st near brake or river’s brim, Whilst the gay thrush sings loud from covert dim; But when pale Winter lights the social fire, And meads with slime […]
English Poetry. Anne Bannerman. The Prophetess of the Oracle of Seam. Энн Баннерман.
Anne Bannerman (Энн Баннерман) The Prophetess of the Oracle of Seam Round Seäm’s isle the black waves boil On the rough, rough rocks below, And none can tell the date or time Since they were tossed so! Yet there comes a night, at the equinox height, When […]
English Poetry. George Herbert. Church Music. Джордж Герберт (Херберт).
George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) Church Music Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Did through my body wound my mind, You took me thence, and in your house of pleasure A dainty lodging me assigned. Now I in you without a body move, Rising and […]
English Poetry. Anne Bannerman. The Penitent’s Confession. Энн Баннерман.
Anne Bannerman (Энн Баннерман) The Penitent’s Confession FROM St. Peter’s tower the bell had toll’d, For the Carmelite Monks to pray, And the holy priest by the altar kneel’d On the eve of St. Peter’s day! The sacred lights on the altar burn’d, Where the blessed symbol […]
English Poetry. Henry Cuyler Bunner. The Chaperon. Генри Куйлер Баннер.
Henry Cuyler Bunner (Генри Куйлер Баннер) The Chaperon I take my chaperon to the play– She thinks she’s taking me. And the gilded youth who owns the box, A proud young man is he; But how would his young heart be hurt If he could only know That […]
English Poetry. Henry Cuyler Bunner. Behold the Deeds!. Генри Куйлер Баннер.
Henry Cuyler Bunner (Генри Куйлер Баннер) Behold the Deeds! I would that all men my hard case would know, How grievously I suffer for no sin: I, Adolphe Culpepper Ferguson, for lo! I of my landlady am lockèd in For being short on this sad Saturday, Nor having […]
English Poetry. Henry Cuyler Bunner. Grant. Генри Куйлер Баннер.
Henry Cuyler Bunner (Генри Куйлер Баннер) Grant Smile on, thou new-come Spring—if on thy breeze The breath of a great man go wavering up And out of this world’s knowledge, it is well. Kindle with thy green flame the stricken trees, And fire the rose’s many-petaled cup, […]
English Poetry. Henry Cuyler Bunner. The Light. Генри Куйлер Баннер.
Henry Cuyler Bunner (Генри Куйлер Баннер) The Light There is no shadow where my love is laid; For (ever thus I fancy in my dream That wakes with me and wakes my sleep), some gleam Of sunlight, thrusting through the poplar shade, Falls there; and even when the […]
English Poetry. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Sonnet. Элис Данбар-Нельсон.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Элис Данбар-Нельсон) Sonnet I had not thought of violets late, The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feet In wistful April days, when lovers mate And wander through the fields in raptures sweet. The thought of violets meant florists’ shops, And bows and pins, and […]
English Poetry. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. To the Negro Farmers of the United States. Элис Данбар-Нельсон.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Элис Данбар-Нельсон) To the Negro Farmers of the United States God washes clean the souls and hearts of you, His favored ones, whose backs bend o’er the soil, Which grudging gives to them requite for toil In sober graces and in vision true. God places in […]
English Poetry. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. I Sit and Sew. Элис Данбар-Нельсон.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Элис Данбар-Нельсон) I Sit and Sew I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. “The Return to Nature”. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) “The Return to Nature” Histories of Modern Poetry (I) PROMETHEUS It was the south: mid-everything, Mid-land, mid-summer, noon; And deep within a limpid spring The mirrored sun of June. Splendour in freshness! Ah, who stole This sun, this fire, from heaven? […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Laws of Verse. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Laws of Verse Dear laws, come to my breast! Take all my frame, and make your close arms meet Around me; and so ruled, so warmed, so pressed, I breathe, aware; I feel my wild heart beat. Dear laws, be wings to […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. London Voluntaries. 2. Andante Con Moto. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) London Voluntaries. 2. Andante Con Moto Forth from the dust and din, The crush, the heat, the many-spotted glare, The odour and sense of life and lust aflare, The wrangle and jangle of unrests, Let us take horse, Dear Heart, take horse […]