English Poetry. Katherine Mansfield. Winter Song. Кэтрин Мэнсфилд.

Katherine Mansfield (Кэтрин Мэнсфилд)

Winter Song

Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people’s feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.

Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Will the Winter never go?
What do beggar children do
With no fire to cuddle to,
P’raps with nowhere warm to go?
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.

Hail and ice, and ice and hail,
Water frozen in the pail.
See the robins, brown and red,
They are waiting to be fed.
Poor dears, battling in the gale!
Hail and ice, and ice and hail.

Katherine Mansfield’s other poems:

1. A Joyful Song Of Five
2. The Town Between the Hills
3. A Little Boy’s Dream
4. A Fine Day
5. A Little Girl’s Prayer

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Wilfred Owen (Уилфред Оуэн) Winter Song (“The browns, the olives, and the yellows died”)

George MacDonald (Джордж Макдональд) Winter Song (“They were parted then at last?”)

Robert Bloomfield (Роберт Блумфилд) Winter Song (“Dear Boy, throw that Icicle down”)

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