English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Pathway of the Living. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Pathway of the Living The pathway of the living is our ever-present care. Let us do our best to smooth it and to make it bright and fair; Let us travel it with kindness, let’s be careful as we tread, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Mother on the Sidewalk. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Mother on the Sidewalk The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by Is the mother of Old Glory that is waving in the sky. Men have fought to keep it splendid, men have died to keep it bright, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Little Church. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Little Church The little church of Long Ago, where as a boy I sat With mother in the family pew and fumbled with my hat– How I would like to see it now the way I saw it then, The straight-backed […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Flag on the Farm. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Flag on the Farm We’ve raised a flagpole on the farm And flung Old Glory to the sky, And it’s another touch of charm That seems to cheer the passer-by, But more than that, no matter where We’re laboring in wood […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Day of Days. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Day of Days A year is filled with glad events: The best is Christmas day, But every holiday presents Its special round of play, And looking back on boyhood now And all the charms it knew, One day, above the rest, […]
English Poetry. James Henry Leigh Hunt. To John Keats. Джеймс Генри Ли Хант.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант) To John Keats ‘Tis well you think me truly one of those, Whose sense discerns the loveliness of things; For surely as I feel the bird that sings Behind the leaves, or dawn as it up grows, Or the rich […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Auto. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Auto An auto is a helpful thing; I love the way the motor hums, I love each cushion and each spring, The way it goes, the way it comes; It saves me many a dreary mile, It brings me quickly to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Signs. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Signs It’s “be a good boy, Willie,” And it’s “run away and play, For Santa Claus is coming With his reindeer and his sleigh.” It’s “mind what mother tells you, And it’s “put away your toys, For Santa Claus is coming To […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Real Swimming. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Real Swimming I saw him in the distance, as the train went speeding by, A shivery little fellow standing in the sun to dry. And a little pile of clothing very near him I could see: He was owner of a gladness […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. October. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) October Days are gettin’ shorter an’ the air a keener snap; Apples now are droppin’ into Mother Nature’s lap; The mist at dusk is risin’ over valley, marsh an’ fen An’ it’s just as plain as sunshine, winter’s comin’ on again. The […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Memorial Day. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Memorial Day The finest tribute we can pay Unto our hero dead to-day, Is not a rose wreath, white and red, In memory of the blood they shed; It is to stand beside each mound, Each couch of consecrated ground, And pledge […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Laughter. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Laughter Laughter sort o’ settles breakfast better than digestive pills; Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills; When the hired help have riled me with their slipshod, careless ways, An’ I’m bilin’ mad an’ cussin’ an’ my […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Hollyhocks. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Hollyhocks Old-fashioned flowers! I love them all: The morning-glories on the wall, The pansies in their patch of shade, The violets, stolen from a glade, The bleeding hearts and columbine, Have long been garden friends of mine; But memory every summer flocks […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Friends. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Friends Ain’t it fine when things are going Topsy-turvy and askew To discover someone showing Good old-fashioned faith in you? Ain’t it good when life seems dreary And your hopes about to end, Just to feel the handclasp cheery Of a fine […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Constant Beauty. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Constant Beauty It’s good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again, It’s good to see the lilacs bloom as lovely as of old. It’s good that we can feel again the touch of beauties real again, For hearts […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. As Fall the Leaves. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) * * * As fall the leaves, so drop the days In silence from the tree of life; Born for a little while to blaze In action in the heat of strife, And then to shrivel with Time’s blast And fade forever […]
English Poetry. James Henry Leigh Hunt. May and the Poets. Джеймс Генри Ли Хант.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант) May and the Poets There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior, May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer; May’s in all the Italian books:– She has old and modern nooks, Where […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. The Fair Gray Lady. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) The Fair Gray Lady When the charm at last is fled From the woodland stark and pale, And like shades of glad hours dead Whirl the leaves before the gale: When against the western fire Darkens many an empty nest, Like […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. At the Parting of the Ways. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) At the Parting of the Ways (AD COMITEM JUNIOREM) Comrade Youth! Sit down with me Underneath the summer tree, Cool green dome whose shade is sweet, Where the sunny roadways meet, See, the ancient finger-post, Silver-bleached with rain and shine, Warns […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 16. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 16 Grant, fairest kind, a kiss unto thy friend! A blush replied, and yet a kiss I had. It is not heaven that can such nectar send Whereat my senses all amazed were glad. This done, she fled as […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 13. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 13 Enamored Jove commanding did entreat Cupid to wound my love, which he denied, And swore he could not for she wanted heat And would not love, as he full oft had tried. Jove in a rage, impatient this […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. At the Close. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) At the Close YOUTH, that is sweetest, lies still, lies chill in death! Close the clear eyelids upon the tender eyes, And hush the pleadings no murmur answereth, And still the kisses that waken no replies. White-limbed he lieth, dead youth, […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. A Basket of Flowers. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) A Basket of Flowers from Dawn to Dusk Dawn On skies still and starlit White lustres take hold, And grey flushes scarlet, And red flashes gold. And sun-glories cover The rose shed above her, Like lover and lover They flame […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Romance of Britomarte. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) The Romance of Britomarte As related by Sergeant Leigh on the night he got his captaincy at the Restoration. I’ll tell you a story; but pass the “jack”, And let us make merry to-night, my men. Aye, those were the days […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Three Friends. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) The Three Friends (From the French) The sword slew one in deadly strife; One perish’d by the bowl; The third lies self-slain by the knife; For three the bells may toll— I loved her better than my life, And better than […]
English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. The Moon-path. Арчибальд Лемпман.
Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман) The Moon-path The full, clear moon uprose and spread Her cold, pale splendor o’er the sea; A light-strewn path that seemed to lead Outward into eternity. Between the darkness and the gleam An old-world spell encompassed me: Methought that in a godlike dream I […]
English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. Cloud-break. Арчибальд Лемпман.
Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман) Cloud-break With a turn of his magical rod, That extended and suddenly shone, From the round of his glory some god Looks forth and is gone. To the summit of heaven the clouds Are rolling aloft like steam; There’s a break in their […]
English Poetry. Gerald Massey. The Vision. Джеральд Масси.
Gerald Massey (Джеральд Масси) The Vision THE sleep of the Dreamer is dying; The Dream is about to be born! ‘Tis a vision of England untying Poor Ireland’s Crown of Thorn! The Night with its shadows is flying, And we shall see clearer at morn: We feel the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Autumn (The Autumn is old). Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Autumn (The Autumn is old) The Autumn is old, The sere leaves are flying;– He hath gather’d up gold, And now he is dying;– Old Age, begin sighing! The vintage is ripe, The harvest is heaping;– But some that have sow’d Have […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy. Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy I. Ah me! those old familiar bounds! That classic house, those classic grounds My pensive thought recalls! What tender urchins now confine, What little captives now repine, Within yon irksome walls? II. […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. The Two Swans. Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) The Two Swans A FAIRY TALE. I. Immortal Imogen, crown’d queen above The lilies of thy sex, vouchsafe to hear A fairy dream in honor of true love– True above ills, and frailty, and all fear,– Perchance a shadow of his […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Sleep. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) Sleep O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, Silent distiller of the balm of rest, How wonderful thy power, when naught else can, To soothe the torn and sorrow-laden breast! When bleeding hearts no comforter can find, When burdened souls droop under […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Life. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) Life Out of the infinite sea of eternity To climb, and for an instant stand Upon an island speck of time. From the impassible peace of the darkness To wake, and blink at the garish light Through one short hour of […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. The Word of an Engineer. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) The Word of an Engineer “She’s built of steel From deck to keel, And bolted strong and tight; In scorn she’ll sail The fiercest gale, And pierce the darkest night. “The builder’s art Has proved each part Throughout her breadth and […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Voluptas. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) Voluptas To chase a never-reached mirage Across the hot, white sand, And choke and die, while gazing on Its green and watered strand. James Weldon Johnson’s other poems: Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl The Color Sergeant Mother Night […]
English Poetry. Walter Savage Landor. To Charles Dickens. Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор.
Walter Savage Landor (Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор) To Charles Dickens Go then to Italy; but mind To leave the pale low France behind; Pass through that country, nor ascend The Rhine, nor over Tyrol wend: Thus all at once shall rise more grand The glories of the ancient land. […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Yale Ode for Commencement Day. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Yale Ode for Commencement Day I Hark! through the archways old High voices manifold Sing praise to our fair Mother, praise to Yale! The Muses’ rustling garments trail; White arms, with myrtle and with laurel wound, Bring crowns to […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Meridian. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Meridian AN OLD-FASHIONED POEM The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Yale Class of 1853 Inque brevi spatio mutantur sæcla animantum Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt. Lucretius, De Rer. Nat. Lib. ii. I The tryst is kept. How […]
English Poetry. James Elroy Flecker. The Old Ships. Джеймс Элрой Флеккер.
James Elroy Flecker (Джеймс Элрой Флеккер) The Old Ships I have seen old ships like swans asleep Beyond the village which men call Tyre, With leaden age o’ercargoed, dipping deep For Famagusta and the hidden sun That rings black Cyprus with a lake of fire; And all those […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Round the Old Board. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Round the Old Board Vigintennial Dinner, Class of 1853 Air—”Cheer, Boys, Cheer!” Round the old board once more we feast together! Thrice and again our hearts have drawn us here; Long have we sailed, in fair and stormy weather; […]