English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. Джордж Гордон Байрон. Ода к Наполеону Бонапарту
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte ‘Tis done – but yesterday a King! And armed with Kings to strive - And now thou art a nameless thing: So abject – yet alive! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strewed our earth with […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. On Leaving Newstead Abbey. Джордж Гордон Байрон. При отъезде из Ньюстедского аббатства
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) On Leaving Newstead Abbey Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle: Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choak’d up the rose, which late bloom’d in the way. […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In November. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) In November No windy white of wind-blown clouds is thine, No windy white but low and sodden gray, That holds the melancholy skies and kills The wild song and the wild bird; yet, ai me! Thy melancholy skies and mournful woods, Brown, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Gray Skies. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Gray Skies It is not well For me to dwell On what upon that day befell, On that dark day of fall befell; When through the landscape, bowed and bent, With Love and Death I slowly went, And wild rain swept the […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Face to Face. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Face to Face Dead! and all the haughty fate Fair on throat and face of wax, White, calm hands crossed still and lax, Cold, impassionate! Dead! and no word whispered low At the dull ear now could wake One responsive chord […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Elfin. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Elfin I. When wildflower blue and wildflower white The wildflowers lay their heads together, And the moon-moth glimmers along the night, And the wandering firefly flares its light, And the full moon rises broad and bright, Then, then it is elfin […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Days and Dreams. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Days and Dreams He dreamed of hills so deep with woods Storm-barriers on the summer sky Are not more dark, where plunged loud floods Down rocks of sullen dye. Flat ways were his where sparsely grew Gnarled, iron-colored oaks, with rifts, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Child and Father. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Child and Father A Little child, one night, awoke and cried, “Oh, help me, father! there is something wild Before me! help me!” Hurrying to his side I answered, “I am here. You dreamed, my child.” “A dream?” he questioned.”Oh, I could […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Boyhood. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Boyhood O Days that hold us; and years that mold us! And dreams and mem’ries no time destroys! Where lie the islands, the morning islands, And where the highlands we knew when boys? Oh, tell us, whether the happy heather Still […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. At Twenty-One. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) At Twenty-One The rosy hills of her high breasts, Whereon, like misty morning, rests The breathing lace; her auburn hair, Wherein, a star point sparkling there, One jewel burns; her eyes, that keep Recorded dreams of song and sleep; Her mouth, with […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. After Autumn Rain. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) After Autumn Rain The hillside smokes With trailing mist around the rosy oaks; While sunset builds A gorgeous Asia in the west she gilds. Auroral streaks Sword through the heavens’ Himalayan peaks: In which, behold, Burn mines of Indian ruby and of […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Threnody. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Threnody I. The rainy smell of a ferny dell, Whose shadow no sunray flaws, When Autumn sits in the wayside weeds Telling her beads Of haws. II. The phantom mist, that is moonbeam-kissed, On hills where the trees […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. At Castle Boterel. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) At Castle Boterel As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at the fading byway, And see on its slope, now glistening wet, Distinctly yet Myself and a girlish form benighted […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Night in June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Night in June I. White as a lily moulded of Earth’s milk That eve the moon bloomed in a hyacinth sky; Soft in the gleaming glens the wind went by, Faint as a phantom clothed in unseen silk: Bright as […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Coward. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Coward He found the road so long and lone That he was fain to turn again. The bird’s faint note, the bee’s low drone Seemed to his heart to monotone The unavailing and the vain, And dirge the dreams that life […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The King. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The King A blown white bubble buoyed zenith-ward, Up from the tremulous East the round moon swung Mist-murky, and the unsocial stars that thronged, Hot with the drought, thick down the empty West, Winked thirstily; no wind to rouse the leaves, That […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Long Room. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Long Room He found the long room as it was of old, Glimmering with sunset’s gold; That made the tapestries seem full of eyes Strange with a wild surmise: Glaring upon a Psyche where she shone Carven of stainless stone, Holding […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Old Inn. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Old Inn Red-Winding from the sleepy town, One takes the lone, forgotten lane Straight through the hills. A brush-bird brown Bubbles in thorn-flowers, sweet with rain, Where breezes bend the gleaming grain, And cautious drip of higher leaves The lower dips […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Pond. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Pond And I told the boy next door What Jack Frost had done; and he Said, “Ah shucks! that’s nothing; see? I have seen all that before. You just come along with me; I will show you something more.” And he […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Rendezvous. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Rendezvous A lonely barn, lost in a field of weeds; A fallen fence, where partly hangs a gate: The skies are darkening and the hour is late; The Indian dusk comes, red in rainy beads. Along a path, which from a […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Sea Faery. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Sea Faery She was strange as the orchids that blossom And glimmer and shower their balm And bloom on the tropical ocean, That crystals round islands of palm: And she sang to and beckoned and bound me With beauty immortal and […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Toad. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Toad Here is a tale to tell to rich relations: There was a toad, a Calibanic monster, In whose squat head ambition had ensconced her Most bloated jewel, dear to highest stations. He was received, though mottled as a lichen In […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Unattainable. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Unattainable Mark thou! a shadow crowned with fire of hell. Man holds her in his heart as night doth hold The moonlight memories of day’s dead gold; Or as a winter-withered asphodel In its dead loveliness holds scents of old. And […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Sign-Seeker. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Sign-Seeker I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, And hear the monotonous hours clang negligently by. I view the evening bonfires of the sun On hills where morning […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Wind at Night. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Wind at Night I. Not till the wildman wind is shrill, Howling upon the hill In every wolfish tree, whose boisterous boughs, Like desperate arms, gesture and beat the night, And down huge clouds, in chasms of stormy white The […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Wood God. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Wood God I Heard his step upon the moss; I glimpsed his shadow in the stream; And thrice I saw the brambles toss Wherein he vanished like a dream. A great beech aimed a giant stroke At my bent head, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Vine and Sycamore. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Vine and Sycamore I. Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon’d Diana, Sat in the ages long ago. Sat with a mortal. with whom she had mated, Sat and […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Wood Notes. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Wood Notes I. There is a flute that follows me From tree to tree: A water flute a spirit sets To silver lips in waterfalls, And through the breath of violets A sparkling music calls: “Hither! halloo! Oh, follow! Down leafy […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Come, Ye That Love the Lord. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * Come, ye that love the Lord, And let your joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, While ye surround his throne: Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God; But servants of the heavenly King May […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. God, the Offended God Most High. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * God, the offended God most high, Ambassadors to rebels sends; His messengers his place supply, And Jesus begs us to be friends. Us, in the stead of Christ, they pray, Us, in the stead of God, intreat, To cast our […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. What Could Your Redeemer Do. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * What could your Redeemer do More than he hath done for you? To procure your peace with God, Could he more than shed his blood? After all his waste of love, All his drawings from above, Why will you your Lord […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Behold the Saviour of Mankind. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * Behold the Saviour of mankind Nailed to the shameful tree! How vast the love that him inclined To bleed and die for thee! Hark, how he groans! while nature shakes, And earth’s strong pillars bend; The temple’s veil in sunder […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Ho! Everyone That Thirsts, Draw Nigh. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh! (‘Tis God invites the fallen race) Mercy and free salvation buy; Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace. Come to the living waters, come! Sinners, obey your Maker’s call; Return, ye weary wanderers, […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Happy the Souls to Jesus Joined. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * Happy the souls to Jesus joined, And saved by grace alone, Walking in all his ways they find Their heaven on earth begun. The church triumphant in thy love, Their mighty joys we know; They sing the Lamb in hymns […]
English Poetry. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Sudden Fine Weather. Джеймс Генри Ли Хант.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант) Sudden Fine Weather Reader! what soul that laoves a verse can see The spring return, nor glow like you and me? Hear the quick birds, and see the landscape fill, Nor long to utter his melodious will? This more […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Suspense. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Suspense Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door! […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Old-Time Family. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Old-Time Family It makes me smile to hear ’em tell each other nowadays The burdens they are bearing, with a child or two to raise. Of course the cost of living has gone soaring to the sky And our kids are […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Scoffer. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Scoffer If I had lived in Franklin’s time I’m most afraid that I, Beholding him out in the rain, a kite about to fly, And noticing upon its tail the barn door’s rusty key, Would, with the scoffers on the street, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. When Mother Cooked with Wood. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) When Mother Cooked with Wood I do not quarrel with the gas, Our modern range is fine, The ancient stove was doomed to pass From Time’s grim firing line, Yet now and then there comes to me The thought of dinners good […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The World Is Against Me. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The World Is Against Me “The world is against me,” he said with a sigh. “Somebody stops every scheme that I try. The world has me down and it’s keeping me there; I don’t get a chance. Oh, the world is unfair! […]