English Poetry. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Spring. Джерард Мэнли Хопкинс.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (Джерард Мэнли Хопкинс) Spring Nothing is so beautiful as spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to […]
English Poetry. Thomas Moore. The Ring. Томас Мур. Кольцо
Thomas Moore (Томас Мур) The Ring Annulus ille viri. OVID. “Amor.” lib. ii. eleg. 15. The happy day at length arrived When Rupert was to wed The fairest maid in Saxony, And take her to his bed. As soon as morn was in the sky, […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Sister’s Cake. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Sister’s Cake I’d not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; Nay, I’ll admit it were most fit that, worn by social cares, She’d crave a change from parlor life to that below […]
English Poetry. Lewis Carroll. The Deserted Parks. Льюис Кэрролл. Покинутые парки
Lewis Carroll (Льюис Кэрролл) The Deserted Parks ‘Solitudinem faciunt: Parcum appellant.’ MUSEUM! loveliest building of the plain. Where Cherwell winds towards the distant main; How often have I loitered o’er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared the scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The […]
English Poetry. William Davenant. The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher. Уильям Давенант.
William Davenant (Уильям Давенант) The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher THE Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown; And at the Saints first Spring, the General Doome, Will rise, not by degrees, but fully blowne; When all the Angells to their Harvest come. Cannot Almighty […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. ‘A Gentleman’s Second-Hand Suit’. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) ‘A Gentleman’s Second-Hand Suit’ Here it is hanging in the sun By the pawn-shop door, A dress-suit – all its revels done Of heretofore. Long drilled to the waltzers’ swing and sway, As its tokens show: What it has seen, what it could […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Squire Hooper. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Squire Hooper Hooper was ninety. One September dawn He sent a messenger For his physician, who asked thereupon What ailed the sufferer Which he might circumvent, and promptly bid begone. ‘Doctor, I summoned you,’ the squire replied – ‘Pooh-pooh me though you […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. An Evening in Galilee. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) An Evening in Galilee She looks far west towards Carmel, shading her eyes with her hand, And she then looks east to the Jordan, and the smooth Tiberias’ strand. ‘Is my son mad?’ she asks; and never an answer has she, Save from […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Concerning Agnes. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Concerning Agnes I am stopped from hoping what I have hoped before – Yes, many a time! – To dance with that fair woman yet once more As in the prime Of August, when the wide-faced moon looked through The boughs at the […]
English Poetry. William Davenant. The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher. Уильям Давенант.
William Davenant (Уильям Давенант) The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher THE Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown; And at the Saints first Spring, the General Doome, Will rise, not by degrees, but fully blowne; When all the Angells to their Harvest come. Cannot Almighty […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. ‘A Gentleman’s Second-Hand Suit’. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) ‘A Gentleman’s Second-Hand Suit’ Here it is hanging in the sun By the pawn-shop door, A dress-suit – all its revels done Of heretofore. Long drilled to the waltzers’ swing and sway, As its tokens show: What it has seen, what it could […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Squire Hooper. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Squire Hooper Hooper was ninety. One September dawn He sent a messenger For his physician, who asked thereupon What ailed the sufferer Which he might circumvent, and promptly bid begone. ‘Doctor, I summoned you,’ the squire replied – ‘Pooh-pooh me though you […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. An Evening in Galilee. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) An Evening in Galilee She looks far west towards Carmel, shading her eyes with her hand, And she then looks east to the Jordan, and the smooth Tiberias’ strand. ‘Is my son mad?’ she asks; and never an answer has she, Save from […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Concerning Agnes. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Concerning Agnes I am stopped from hoping what I have hoped before – Yes, many a time! – To dance with that fair woman yet once more As in the prime Of August, when the wide-faced moon looked through The boughs at the […]
English Poetry. William Davenant. The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher. Уильям Давенант.
William Davenant (Уильям Давенант) The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher THE Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown; And at the Saints first Spring, the General Doome, Will rise, not by degrees, but fully blowne; When all the Angells to their Harvest come. Cannot Almighty […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. ‘A Gentleman’s Second-Hand Suit’. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) ‘A Gentleman’s Second-Hand Suit’ Here it is hanging in the sun By the pawn-shop door, A dress-suit – all its revels done Of heretofore. Long drilled to the waltzers’ swing and sway, As its tokens show: What it has seen, what it could […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Squire Hooper. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Squire Hooper Hooper was ninety. One September dawn He sent a messenger For his physician, who asked thereupon What ailed the sufferer Which he might circumvent, and promptly bid begone. ‘Doctor, I summoned you,’ the squire replied – ‘Pooh-pooh me though you […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. An Evening in Galilee. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) An Evening in Galilee She looks far west towards Carmel, shading her eyes with her hand, And she then looks east to the Jordan, and the smooth Tiberias’ strand. ‘Is my son mad?’ she asks; and never an answer has she, Save from […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Concerning Agnes. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Concerning Agnes I am stopped from hoping what I have hoped before – Yes, many a time! – To dance with that fair woman yet once more As in the prime Of August, when the wide-faced moon looked through The boughs at the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Mongrel. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Mongrel In Havenpool Harbour the ebb was strong, And a man with a dog drew near and hung, And taxpaying day was coming along, So the mongrel had to be drowned. The man threw a stick from the paved wharf-side Into the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Ballad (She’s up and gone, the graceless girl). Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Ballad (She’s up and gone, the graceless girl) She’s up and gone, the graceless girl, And robb’d my failing years! My blood before was thin and cold But now ’tis turn’d to tears;– My shadow falls upon my grave, So near the brink […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Dust of the Street. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Dust of the Street This cosmic dust beneath our feet Rising to hurry down the street, Borne by the wind and blown astray In its erratic, senseless way, Is the same stuff as you and I— With knowledge and desire put by. […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Fog. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Fog Light silken curtain, colorless and soft, Dreamlike before me floating! what abides Behind thy pearly veil’s Opaque, mysterious woof? Where sleek red kine, and dappled, crunch day-long Thick, luscious blades and purple clover-heads, Nigh me I still can mark Cool fields of […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad. 47. The Carpenter’s Son. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) A Shropshire Lad. 47. The Carpenter’s Son “Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die. “Oh, at home had I but stayed […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Exeunt Omnes. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Exeunt Omnes I Everybody else, then, going, And I still left where the fair was?… Much have I seen of neighbour loungers Making a lusty showing, Each now past all knowing. II There is an air of blankness In […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. After Autumn Rain. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) After Autumn Rain The hillside smokes With trailing mist around the rosy oaks; While sunset builds A gorgeous Asia in the west she gilds. Auroral streaks Sword through the heavens’ Himalayan peaks: In which, behold, Burn mines of Indian ruby and of […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. At Castle Boterel. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) At Castle Boterel As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at the fading byway, And see on its slope, now glistening wet, Distinctly yet Myself and a girlish form benighted […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Sign-Seeker. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Sign-Seeker I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, And hear the monotonous hours clang negligently by. I view the evening bonfires of the sun On hills where morning […]
English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Happy the Souls to Jesus Joined. Чарльз Уэсли.
Charles Wesley (Чарльз Уэсли) * * * Happy the souls to Jesus joined, And saved by grace alone, Walking in all his ways they find Their heaven on earth begun. The church triumphant in thy love, Their mighty joys we know; They sing the Lamb in hymns […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy. Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy I. Ah me! those old familiar bounds! That classic house, those classic grounds My pensive thought recalls! What tender urchins now confine, What little captives now repine, Within yon irksome walls? II. […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Meridian. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Meridian AN OLD-FASHIONED POEM The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Yale Class of 1853 Inque brevi spatio mutantur sæcla animantum Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt. Lucretius, De Rer. Nat. Lib. ii. I The tryst is kept. How […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Against Lying. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Against Lying O ’tis a lovely thing for youth To early walk in wisdom’s way; To fear a lie, to speak the truth, That we may trust to all they say! But liars we can never trust, Even when they say what is […]
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. 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. 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. 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 […]