Poetry In English – Page 26 – The Poetry Monster

English Poetry. John Gay. Air. If Lawer’s Hand Is Fee’d. Джон Гей. Ария. «Когда у курятника бродит лисица»

John Gay (Джон Гей) Air. If Lawer’s Hand Is Fee’d A fox may steal your hens, sir, A whore your health and pence, sir, Your daughter rob your chest, sir, Your wife may steal your rest, sir, A thief your goods and plate. But this is all […]

English Poetry. John Gay. Elegiac Epistle to a Friend; Written under a Dejection of Spirits. Джон Гей. Элегическое послание другу, написанное в угнетённом состоянии духа

John Gay (Джон Гей) Elegiac Epistle to a Friend; Written under a Dejection of Spirits Friend of my youth, shedd’st thou the pitying tear O’er the sad relics of my happier days? Of nature tender, as of soul sincere, Pour’st thou for me the melancholy […]

English Poetry. John Gay. Comparisons. Джон Гей. Сравнения

John Gay (Джон Гей) Comparisons A Lamb and a Lion – a Fox and an Ass, Resemble Mankind, as it were in a glass; Males are harmless as lambs ’till they’re fourteen years old, And ’till they are forty, as lions are bold; As […]

English Poetry. Thomas Wyatt. Abide and Abide and Better Abide. Томас Уайетт.

Thomas Wyatt (Томас Уайетт) * * * I abide and abide and better abide, And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, “Let me alone and I will provide.” I abide and abide and tarry the tide, And with abiding […]

English Poetry. Thomas Hood. False Poets and True. Томас Гуд (Худ).

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) False Poets and True TO WORDSWORTH Look how the lark soars upward and is gone, Turning a spirit as he nears the sky! His voice is heard, but body there is none To fix the vague excursions of the eye. So, poets’ […]

English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Song (The stars are with the voyager). Томас Гуд (Худ).

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Song (The stars are with the voyager) The stars are with the voyager Wherever he may sail; The moon is constant to her time; The sun will never fail; But follow, follow round the world, The green earth and the sea, So love […]

English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Written in Keats’ “Endymion”. Томас Гуд (Худ).

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Written in Keats’ “Endymion” Sonnet I saw pale Dian, sitting by the brink Of silver falls, the overflow of fountains From cloudy steeps; and I grew sad to think Endymion’s foot was silent on those mountains. And he but a hush’d name, […]

English Poetry. Thomas Hood. The Two Peacocks of Bedfont. Томас Гуд (Худ).

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) The Two Peacocks of Bedfont I. Alas! That breathing Vanity should go Where Pride is buried,–like its very ghost, Uprisen from the naked bones below, In novel flesh, clad in the silent boast Of gaudy silk that flutters to and fro, Shedding […]

English Poetry. Thomas Hood. The Departure of Summer. Томас Гуд (Худ).

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) The Departure of Summer Summer is gone on swallows’ wings, And Earth has buried all her flowers: No more the lark,–the linnet–sings, But Silence sits in faded bowers. There is a shadow on the plain Of Winter ere he comes again,– There is […]

English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Bed. Элла Уилкокс.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Bed A harsh and homely monosyllable, Abrupt and musicless, and at its best An inartistic object to the eye, Yet in this brief and troubled life of man How full of majesty the part it plays! It is the cradle which receives […]

English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Beauty Making. Элла Уилкокс.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Beauty Making Methinks there is no greater work in life Than making beauty. Can the mind conceive One little corner in celestial realms Unbeautiful, or dull or commonplace? Or picture ugly angels, illy clad? Beauty and splendour, opulence and joy, Are attributes of […]

English Poetry. James Graham, 1st Marquise of Montrose. Lines Written on the Eve of His Execution. Джеймс Грэм, первый маркиз Монтроз.

James Graham, 1st Marquise of Montrose (Джеймс Грэм, первый маркиз Монтроз) Lines Written on the Eve of His Execution Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake, Then place my par […]

English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Beauty (Though thy cheek be fair, as the roses are). Элла Уилкокс.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Beauty (Though thy cheek be fair, as the roses are) Though thy cheek be fair, as the roses are, Thy brow like the drifted snow, And thine eye as bright, as the diamonds light, Yet if in thy heart doth grow But noxious […]

English Poetry. William Dean Howells. The Sarcastic Fair. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс) The Sarcastic Fair Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee, who stings. William Dean Howells’s other poems: Vision The Song the Oriole Sings In Earliest Spring By the […]

English Poetry. Thomas Wyatt. My Lute Awake. Томас Уайетт.

Thomas Wyatt (Томас Уайетт) * * * My lute awake! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun; For when this song is sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done. As to be heard […]

English Poetry. William Dean Howells. By the Sea. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс) By the Sea I walked with her I love by the sea, The deep came up with its chanting waves, Making a music so great and free That the will and the faith, which were dead in me, Awoke and rose from […]

English Poetry. William Dean Howells. The Two Wives. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс) The Two Wives THE COLONEL rode by his picket-line In the pleasant morning sun, That glanced from him far off to shine On the crouching rebel picket’s gun. From his command the captain strode Out with a grave salute, And […]

English Poetry. William Dean Howells. Change. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс) Change SOMETIMES, when after spirited debate Of letters or affairs, in thought I go Smiling unto myself, and all aglow With some immediate purpose, and elate As if my little, trivial scheme were great, And what I would so were already […]

English Poetry. William Dean Howells. Vision. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс) Vision WITHIN a poor man’s squalid home I stood: The one bare chamber, where his work-worn wife Above the stove and wash-tub passed her life, Next the sty where they slept with all their brood. But I saw not that sunless, breathless […]

English Poetry. William Dean Howells. In Earliest Spring. Уильям Дин Хоуэллс.

William Dean Howells (Уильям Дин Хоуэллс) In Earliest Spring TOSSING his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles, Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath, Through all the moaning chimneys, and ‘thwart all the hollows and angles Round the shuddering house, threatening of winter and death. […]

English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. A Winter’s Tale. Дилан Томас. Зимняя сказка

Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) A Winter’s Tale It is a winter’s tale That the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakes And floating fields from the farm in the cup of the vales, Gliding windless through the hand folded flakes, The pale breath of cattle at the stealthy […]

English Poetry. John Gay. An Epistle to Her Grace, Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough. Джон Гей. Послание её светлости Генриетте, герцогине Мальборо

John Gay (Джон Гей) An Epistle to Her Grace, Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough Excuse me, Madam, if amidst your tears A Muse intrudes, a Muse who feels your cares; Numbers, like Musick, can ev’n Grief controul, And lull to peace the tumults of the soul. […]

English Poetry. John Gay. To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China. Джон Гей. К леди, которая с увлечением собирает старинную китайскую посуду

John Gay (Джон Гей) To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China What ecstasies her bosom fire! How her eyes languish with desire! How blest, how happy should I be, Were that fond glance bestow’d on me! New doubts and fears within me […]

English Poetry. John Gay. Revenge: or Fartherly Kindness. Джон Гей. Месть, или О том, как отец проявил доброту к замужней дочери

John Gay (Джон Гей) Revenge: or Fartherly Kindness A vixen wife, who felt the horsewhip’s smart, Ran to her Father – begg’d he’d take her part. “What was your fault? (said he) Come, state the case.” “I threw some coffee in my husband’s face, […]

English Poetry. John Gay. Fable. Джон Гей. Басня

John Gay (Джон Гей) Fable A Milk-white Swan, in Aesop’s time, Had got the knack of making rhyme; All other birds he did excel; Wrote verses, – yes, – and wrote them well: Praised was his genius, and his parts – All wondered […]

English Poetry. Francis Thompson. Beginning of End. Фрэнсис Томпсон.

Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон) Beginning of End She was aweary of the hovering Of Love’s incessant tumultuous wing; Her lover’s tokens she would answer not– ‘Twere well she should be strange with him somewhat: A pretty babe, this Love,–but fie on it, That would not suffer her lay […]

English Poetry. Bliss Carman. A Water Color. Блисс Кармен.

Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) A Water Color There’s a picture in my room Lightens many an hour of gloom,— Cheers me under fortune’s frown And the drudgery of town. Many and many a winter day When my soul sees all things gray, Here is veritable […]

English Poetry. Bliss Carman. A Fireside Vision. Блисс Кармен.

Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) A Fireside Vision Once I walked the world enchanted Through the scented woods of spring, Hand in hand with Love, in rapture Just to hear a bluebird sing. Now the lonely winds of autumn Moan about my gusty eaves, As I sit beside […]

English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Givers of Life. Блисс Кармен.

Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Givers of Life I Who called us forth out of darkness and gave us the gift of life, Who set our hands to the toiling, our feet in the field of strife? Darkly they mused, predestined to knowledge of viewless things, […]

English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Trees. Блисс Кармен.

Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Trees In the Garden of Eden, planted by God, There were goodly trees in the springing sod,— Trees of beauty and height and grace, To stand in splendor before His face. Apple and hickory, ash and pear, Oak and beech and the […]

English Poetry. Bliss Carman. In the Day of Battle. Блисс Кармен.

Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) In the Day of Battle In the day of battle, In the night of dread, Let one hymn be lifted, Let one prayer be said. Not for pride of conquest, Not for vengeance wrought, Nor for peace and safety With dishonour bought! […]

English Poetry. Clinton Scollard. A Sea Rover. Клинтон Сколлард.

Clinton Scollard (Клинтон Сколлард) A Sea Rover The breakers dash, the breakers boom, Upon the beaches ceaselessly; Beyond the line of flying spume Stretch weltering wastes of sea. There gray gulls hold their loud carouse, The four great winds rejoice or mourn, There go deep barques, with […]