English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 16. A Song of the Rolling Earth. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 16. A Song of the Rolling Earth 1 A song of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots? No, those are not the words, the […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 17. Birds of Passage. 2. Pioneers! O Pioneers!. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 17. Из цикла «Перелетные птицы». 2. Пионеры! О пионеры!
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 17. Birds of Passage. 2. Pioneers! O Pioneers! Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here, We must march […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 15. A Song for Occupations. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 15. Песня разных профессий
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 15. A Song for Occupations 1 A song for occupations! In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments, And find the eternal meanings. Workmen and Workwomen! Were all educations practical and […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 14. Song of the Redwood-Tree. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 14. Song of the Redwood-Tree 1 A California song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air, A chorus of dryads, fading, departing, or hamadryads departing, A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 13. Song of the Exposition. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 13. Song of the Exposition 1 (Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.) After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. God Rules Alway. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) God Rules Alway Into the world’s most high and holy places Men carry selfishness, and graft and greed. The air is rent with warring of the races; Loud Dogmas drown a brother’s cry of need. The Fleet-of-Creeds, upon Time’s ocean lurches; And there […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. England, Awake!. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) England, Awake! A beautiful great lady, past her prime, Behold her dreaming in her easy chair; Gray robed, and veiled, in laces old and rare, Her smiling eyes see but the vanished time, Of splendid prowess, and of deeds sublime. Self satisfied she […]
English Poetry. Ernest Christopher Dowson. A Coronal. Эрнест Кристофер Доусон.
Ernest Christopher Dowson (Эрнест Кристофер Доусон) A Coronal With his songs and her days to his lady and to love Violets and leaves of vine, Into a frail, fair wreath We gather and entwine: A wreath for Love to wear, Fragrant as his own breath, To crown […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Devils. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Devils God made man and man made devils– All of earth’s evils Are shaped and moulded by mortal thought Carelessly fashioned or carefully wrought, Life after life and time on time, Thought-forms grow into creatures of crime, Roaming about in the Regions of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Dawn. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Dawn Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn; Refreshed by his long sleep, the Light Kisses the languid lips of Night, Ere she can rise and hasten on. All glowing from his dreamless rest He holds her closely to his breast, Warm lip to […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Canada. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Canada England, father and mother in one, Look on your stalwart son. Sturdy and strong, with the valour of youth, Where is another so lusty? Coated and mailed, with the armour of truth, Where is another so trusty? Flesh of your flesh, and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Bedlam Town. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Bedlam Town Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town? Then come with me, when the day swings down, Into the cradle, whose rockers rim, Some people call the horizon dim. All the mischief of all the fates Seems to center in […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Ballade of the Unborn Dead. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Ballade of the Unborn Dead They walked the valley of the dead; Lit by a weird half light; No sound they made, no word they said; And they were pale with fright. Then suddenly from unseen places came Loud laughter, that was […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Australia Answers. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Australia Answers How did you answer England’s cry, when it fell upon your ear? With four hundred thousand fighting men, each one a volunteer! And where did you come to England’s aid, when she called you across the sea? We came to her […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 12. Song of the Broad-Axe. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 12. Песня о топоре
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 12. Song of the Broad-Axe 1 Weapon shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother’s bowels drawn, Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one, Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 11. A Song of Joys. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 11. Песня радостей
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 11. A Song of Joys O to make the most jubilant song! Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees. O for the voices of animals—O for the swiftness and balance of fishes! […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 9. Song of the Answerer. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 9. Song of the Answerer 1 Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me. A young man comes to […]
English Poetry. Ernest Christopher Dowson. Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae. Эрнест Кристофер Доусон.
Ernest Christopher Dowson (Эрнест Кристофер Доусон) Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. False. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) False False! Good God, I am dreaming! No, no, it never can be– You who are so true in seeming, You, false to your vows and me? My wife and my fair boy’s mother The star of my life–my queen– To yield herself […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Lawns. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Lawns The roads that from my childhood’s home led out, As seasons changed were paved with dust or snow; And in the summer, bordered all about With unkempt grasses, and wild weeds ablow. I can recall the early ride to town, One […]