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. 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. 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 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. Joseph Warton. To Solitude. Джозеф Уортон.
Joseph Warton (Джозеф Уортон) To Solitude Thou, that at deep dead of night Walk’st forth beneath the pale moon’s light, In robe of flowing black array’d, While cypress-leaves thy brows o’ershade; List’ning to the crowing cock, And the distant-sounding clock; Or sitting in thy cavern low, Do’st hear […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Little Old Woman. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Little Old Woman There’s a Little Old Woman walks in the night, Singing her love song like a falling keen; The Little Old Woman is the heart’s delight, With the gold crown under her hood to tell her queen. The Little Old […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Dream Road. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Dream Road I took the road again last night On which my boyhood’s hills look down; The old road leading from the town, The village there below the height, Its cottage homes, all huddled brown, Each with its blur of light. […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Dream Road. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Dream Road I took the road again last night On which my boyhood’s hills look down; The old road leading from the town, The village there below the height, Its cottage homes, all huddled brown, Each with its blur of light. […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Song for Yule. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Song for Yule I Sing, Hey, when the time rolls round this way, And the bells peal out, ‘Tis Christmas Day; The world is better then by half, For joy, for joy; In a little while you will see it […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Forest Child. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Forest Child There is a place I search for still, Sequestered as the world of dreams, A bushy hollow, and a hill That whispers with descending streams, Cool, careless waters, wandering down, Like Innocence who runs to town, Leaving the wildwood […]
English Poetry. Alfred Tennyson. Spring. Альфред Теннисон.
Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) Spring Birds’ love and birds’ song Flying here and there, Birds’ songand birds’ love And you with gold for hair! Birds’ songand birds’ love Passing with the weather, Men’s song and men’s love, To love once and forever. Men’s love and birds’ love, […]
English Poetry. Alfred Tennyson. Mariana. Альфред Теннисон. Мариана
Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) Mariana With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look’d sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. When Mother Sleeps. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) When Mother Sleeps When mother sleeps, a slamming door Disturbs her not at all; A man might walk across the floor Or wander through the hall A pistol shot outside would not Drive slumber from her eyes– But she is always on […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Doubtful Dreams. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Doubtful Dreams Aye, snows are rife in December, And sheaves are in August yet, And you would have me remember, And I would rather forget; In the bloom of the May-day weather, In the blight of October chill, We were dreamers of […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. With Brutus in St. Jo. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) With Brutus in St. Jo Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the best; Milt, being rich, was much too proud to run the thing alone, So he hired an “acting manager,” […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Love Lightly Pleased. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Love Lightly Pleased Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me; Or let her walk, or stand, or sit, The posture her’s, I’m pleased with it; Or let her tongue be still, or stir Graceful is every […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. In Sleep. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) In Sleep I dreamt (no “dream” awake—a dream indeed) A wrathful man was talking in the park: “Where are the Higher Powers, who know our need And leave us in the dark? “There are no Higher Powers; there is no heart In God, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. A Wind of Clear Weather in England. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) A Wind of Clear Weather in England O what a miracle wind is this Has crossed the English land to-day With an unprecedented kiss, And wonderfully found a way! Unsmirched incredibly and clean, Between the towns and factories, Avoiding, has his long flight […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Garden Magic. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Garden Magic Within my stone-walled garden (I see her standing now, Uplifted in the twilight, With glory on her brow!) I love to walk at evening And watch, when winds are low, The new moon in the tree-tops, Because she loved it so! […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Garden of Dreams. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Garden of Dreams My heart is a garden of dreams Where you walk when day is done, Fair as the royal flowers, Calm as the lingering sun. Never a drouth comes there, Nor any frost that mars, Only the wind of love […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child’s Garden of Verses. 23. The Cow. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон. Детский сад стихов. 23. Наша корова
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) A Child’s Garden of Verses. 23. The Cow The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Psalm 135. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Psalm 135 Praise due to God, not to idols. Awake, ye saints; to praise your King, Your sweetest passions raise, Your pious pleasure, while you sing, Increasing with the praise. Great is the Lord, and works unknown Are his divine employ; But […]
English Poetry. William Whitehead. An Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring. Уильям Уайтхед.
William Whitehead (Уильям Уайтхед) An Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring Nymph of the Fount! from whose auspicious Urn Flows health, flows strength, and Beauty’s roseate bloom, Which warms the virgin’s cheek, thy gifts I sing! Whether inclining from thy rocky couch Thou hear’st attentive, or with […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. After the Burial. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) After the Burial The family had buried him, Their bread-bringer, their best: They had returned to the house, whose hush a dim Vague vacancy expressed. There sat his sons, mute, rigid-faced, His daughters, strained, red-eyed, His wife, whose wan, worn features, vigil-traced, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. In the Marquee. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) In the Marquee It was near last century’s ending, And, though not much to rate In a world of getting and spending, To her it was great. The scene was a London suburb On a night of summer weather, And the villas […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Clasped Skeletons. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Clasped Skeletons Surmised Date 1800 B.C. (In an Ancient British barrow near the writer’s house) O why did we uncover to view So closely clasped a pair? Your chalky bedclothes over you, This long time here! Ere Paris lay with […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Dead Bastard. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Dead Bastard Many and many a time I thought, ‘Would my child were in its grave!’ Such the trouble and shame it brought. Now ’tis there. And now I’d brave Opinion’s worst, in word or act, To have that child alive; […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Self-Glamourer. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Self-Glamourer My little happiness, How much I have made of it! – As if I had been not less Than a queen, to be straight obeyed of it. ‘Life, be fairer far,’ I said, ‘than you are.’ So I counted my […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. So Various. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) So Various You may have met a man – quite young – A brisk-eyed youth, and highly strung: One whose desires And inner fires Moved him as wires. And you may have met one stiff and old, If not in years; of […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. Ad Martialem. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) Ad Martialem GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be To enjoy our days set wholly free; To the true life together bend our mind, And take a furlough from the falser kind. No rich saloon, nor palace of the great, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. He Did Not Know Me. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) He Did Not Know Me (Woman’s Sorrow Song) He said: ‘I do not know you; You are not she who came And made my heart grow tame?’ I laughed: ‘The same!’ Still said he: ‘I don’t know you.’ ‘But I am […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Felled Elm and She. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Felled Elm and She When you put on that inmost ring She, like you, was a little thing: When your circles reached their fourth, Scarce she knew life’s south from north: When your year-zones counted twenty She had fond admirers plenty: When […]
English Poetry. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Treadmill Song. Оливер Уэнделл Холмс.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Оливер Уэнделл Холмс) The Treadmill Song THE stars are rolling in the sky, The earth rolls on below, And we can feel the rattling wheel Revolving as we go. Then tread away, my gallant boys, And make the axle fly; Why should not wheels go […]
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 […]