English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Forgers. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Forgers IN the smithy it began: Let’s make something for a man! Hear the bellows belch and roar, Splashing light on roof and floor: From their nest the feathery sparks Fly like little golden larks: Hear each forger’s taunting yell, Tell–tell–tell–tell– […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Voice and the Dusk. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Voice and the Dusk THE slender moon and one pale star, A rose leaf and a silver bee From some god’s garden blown afar, Go down the gold deep tranquilly. Within the south there rolls and grows A mighty town […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Sea by the Wood. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Sea by the Wood I DWELL in the sea that is wild and deep, But afar in a shadow still, I can see the trees that gather and sleep In the wood upon the hill. The deeps are green as […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. Off Riviere Du Loup. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) Off Riviere Du Loup O ship incoming from the sea With all your cloudy tower of sail, Dashing the water to the lee, And leaning grandly to the gale, The sunset pageant in the west Has filled your canvas curves with […]
English Poetry. Joseph Warton. Sappho’s Advice. Джозеф Уортон.
Joseph Warton (Джозеф Уортон) Sappho’s Advice Tir’d with the visits of the day, Semanthe on a sofa lay; And leaning on her elbow, thought Which was the loveliest silks she bought; How by Sir Plume she was gallented, How at the park and opera flaunted! What silly hearts […]
English Poetry. Joseph Warton. Contentment. Джозеф Уортон.
Joseph Warton (Джозеф Уортон) Contentment Farewel, aspiring thoughts, no more My soul shall leave the peaceful shore, To sail ambition’s main. Fallacious as the harlot’s kiss, You promise me uncertain bliss, But give me certain pain. A beauteous prospect first you shew, Which, ere survey’d, you paint […]
English Poetry. Joseph Warton. Ode to Fancy. Джозеф Уортон.
Joseph Warton (Джозеф Уортон) Ode to Fancy O parent of each lovely Muse, Thy spirit o’er my soul diffuse, O’er all my artless songs preside, My footsteps to thy temple guide. To offer at thy turf-built shrine, In golden cups no costly wine, No murder’d fatling of the […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. To a Boy-Poet of the Decadence. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) To a Boy-Poet of the Decadence [Showing curious reversal of epigram––‘La nature l’a fait sanglier; la civilisation l’a réduit à l’état de cochon.’] But my good little man, you have made a mistake If you really are pleased to suppose That […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. A New Blue Book. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) A New Blue Book [It was hardly to be supposed that the young decadents who once rioted … in the Yellow Book would be content to remain in obscurity after the metamorphosis of that periodical and the consequent exclusion of themselves. The Savoy, […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. To Mr. William Watson. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) To Mr. William Watson [On writing the first instalment of The Purple East, a ‘fine sonnet which it is our privilege to publish.’––Westminster Gazette, Dec. 16, 1895.] Dear Mr. Watson, we have heard with wonder, Not all unmingled with a sad […]
English Poetry. Edmund Spenser. Sonnet 54. Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay. Эдмунд Спенсер. Сонет 54. В театре жизни ты, моя любовь
Edmund Spenser (Эдмунд Спенсер) Sonnet 54. Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay, My love lyke the Spectator ydly sits Beholding me that all the pageants play, Disguysing diversly my troubled wits. Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits, […]
English Poetry. William Shakespeare. Sonnet 144. Two loves I have of comfort and despair. Уильям Шекспир. Сонет 144. На радость и печаль, по воле рока
William Shakespeare (Уильям Шекспир) Sonnet 144. Two loves I have of comfort and despair Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still, The better angel is a man right fair: The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. Tactless Tactics. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) Tactless Tactics Were I a burglar in the dock With every chance of doing time, With Justice sitting like a rock To hear a record black with crime; If my conviction seemed a cert, Yet, by a show of late repentance, I thought I […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. The Wayside Calvary. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) The Wayside Calvary Now with the full year Memory holds her tryst Heavy with such a tale of bitter loss As never Earth has suffered since the Christ Hung for us on the Cross. If God, O Kaiser, makes the vision plain: Gives […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. For the Red Cross. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) For the Red Cross Ye that have gentle hearts and fain To succour men in need, There is no voice could ask in vain With such a cause to plead – The cause of those that in your care, Who know the debt to […]
English Poetry. Owen Seaman. The Rhyme of the Kipperling. Оуэн Симен.
Owen Seaman (Оуэн Симен) The Rhyme of the Kipperling Away by the haunts of the Yang-tse-boo, Where the Yuletide runs cold gin, And the rollicking sign of the Lord Knows Who Sees mariners drink like sin; Where the Jolly Roger tips his quart To the luck of the […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Living Picture. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Living Picture No, I’ll not say your name. I have said it now, As you mine, first in childish treble, then Up through a score and more familiar years Till baby-voices mock us. Time may come When your tall sons look […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Leonora. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Leonora LEONORA, Leonora, How the word rolls–Leonora– Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o’er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime– So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme. So you pace, young Leonora, Through the alleys of the wood, […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The Unfinished Book. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The Unfinished Book TAKE it, reader, idly passing, This, like other idle lines; Take it, critic, great at classing Subtle genius and its signs: But, O reader, be thou dumb; Critic, let no sharp wit come; For the hand that wrote and […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. For Music. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) For Music ALONG the shore, along the shore I see the wavelets meeting: But thee I see–ah, never more, For all my wild heart’s beating. The little wavelets come and go, The tide of life ebbs to and fro, Advancing and retreating: […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. In Memoriam. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) In Memoriam Obiit 1854. HEAVEN rest thee! We shall go about today In our festal garlands gay; Whatsoever robes we wear Not a trace of black be there. Well, what matters? none is seen On thy daisy covering green, Or thy […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The Lost Piece of Silver. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The Lost Piece of Silver HOLY Lord Jesus, Thou wilt search till Thou find This lost piece of silver,–this treasure enshrined In casket or bosom, once of such store; Now lying under the dust of Thy floor. Gentle Lord Jesus, Thou […]
English Poetry. Charlotte Turner Smith. Love and Folly. Шарлотта Смит.
Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит) Love and Folly LOVE, who now deals to human hearts, Such ill thrown, yet resistless darts, That hapless mortals can’t withstand them, Was once less cruel and perverse, Nor did he then his shafts disperse, So much at random. It happened, that […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Dream of Resurrection. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Dream of Resurrection SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A lost hope clothes itself alway. The dream showed very plain: the bed Where that known unknown face […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. My Love Annie. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) My Love Annie SOFT of voice and light of hand As the fairest in the land– Who can rightly understand My love Annie? Simple in her thoughts and ways, True in every word she says,– Who shall even dare to praise […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The Path Through the Corn. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The Path Through the Corn WAVY and bright in the summer air, Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair, And its roughest breath has scarcely curled The green highway to a distant world,– Soft whispers passing from shore to shore, […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Day by Day. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Day by Day EVERY day has its dawn, Its soft and silent eve, Its noontide hours of bliss or bale;– Why should we grieve? Why do we heap huge mounds of years Before us and behind, And scorn the little days […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Now and Afterwards. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Now and Afterwards TWO hands upon the breast, And labor’s done; Two pale feet crossed in rest– The race is won; Two eyes with coin-weights shut, And all tears cease; Two lips where grief is mute, Anger at peace’:– So pray we […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Coeur De Lion. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Coeur De Lion I. RICHARD the Lion-hearted, crowned serene With the true royalty of perfect man; Seated in stone above the praise or ban Of these mixed crowds who come gaping lean As if to see what the word ‘king’ might […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Spirit Present. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Spirit Present IF, coming from that unknown sphere Where I believe thou art,– The world unseen which girds our world So close, yet so apart,– Thy soul’s soft call unto my soul Electrical could reach, And mortal and immortal blend In […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Only a Dream. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Only a Dream METHOUGHT I saw thee yesternight Sit by me in the olden guise, The white robes and the pain foregone, Weaving instead of amaranth crown A web of mortal dyes. I cried, ‘Where hast thou been so long?’ (The […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. At Even-Tide. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) At Even-Tide C. N.—Died April, 1857. What spirit is it that doth pervade The silence of this empty room? And as I lift my eyes, what shade Glides off and vanishes in gloom? I could believe this moment gone, A […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Christmas Day. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) Christmas Day A baby is a harmless thing And wins our hearts with one accord, And Flower of Babies was their King, Jesus Christ our Lord: Lily of lilies He Upon His Mother’s knee; Rose of roses, soon to be Crowned with […]
English Poetry. Charlotte Turner Smith. Written near a Port on a Dark Evening. Шарлотта Смит.
Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит) Written near a Port on a Dark Evening Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore, Night on the ocean settles dark and mute, Save where is heard the repercussive roar Of drowsy billows on the rugged foot Of rocks remote; or still more […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Winter Sunset. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Winter Sunset Roses in the sky, Roses in the sea Bowers of scarlet sky-roses Take my heart and me. God was good to make, This December weather, All this sky a rose-garden, Rose and fire together. To the East are burning Roses […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Distraction. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Distraction When swarms of small distractions harry Devotion like the gnats that fly Till prayers are cold and customary, Not such as please Thee, Heaven-high. When I forget for all my striving Thy presence holy and august, Be Thou not angry, but forgiving […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Alienation. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Alienation For the first time since he was born Her son, her rose without a thorn, They are at variance, they who were Always such closest friends and dear. Another face is in his dreams Under the sunbeams and moonbeams. In his changed […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Last Parting. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Last Parting He is not dead. They do not know, Who pity her, her secret ease, How he is near her, how they go, Her hand in his. The last sad parting now is done. She can look back as from afar […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. His Footstep. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) His Footstep To Lady Wemyss The boy will come no more Although I listen and long; The sound of his foot on the floor Was like an old song. His foot had the music in it, And now the music’s dumb – […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Truce of God. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Truce of God After Suvla Now to the stricken doe And the wounded hind There comes the Mercy of God That is cool and kind. To the hapless creature He made He giveth rest. All the woes of the world Lie […]