English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 12. To Rich Givers. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 12. Щедрым даятелям
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 12. To Rich Givers What you give me I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems, A traveler’s lodging and breakfast as journey through the States,— […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 11. I Sit and Look Out. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 11. Я сижу и смотрю
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 11. I Sit and Look Out I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame, I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Early Poems (1859-70). The Old Year. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Early Poems (1859-70). The Old Year It passed like the breath of the night-wind away, It fled like a mist at the dawn of the day; It lasted its moment, then backward was hurled, Another increase to the age of the world. It […]
English Poetry. George Meredith. The Lark Ascending. Джордж Мередит.
George Meredith (Джордж Мередит) The Lark Ascending He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake, All intervolv’d and spreading wide, Like water-dimples down a tide Where ripple ripple overcurls And eddy […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Early Poems (1859-70). Australian War Song. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Early Poems (1859-70). Australian War Song Men have said that ye were sleeping— Hurl, Australians, back the lie; Whet the swords you have in keeping, Forward stand to do or die! Hear ye not, across the ocean, Echoes of the distant fray, Sounds of […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). A Spanish Love Song. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). A Spanish Love Song From Andalusian gardens I bring the rose and rue, And leaves of subtle odour, To weave a gift for you. You’ll know the reason wherefore The sad is with the sweet; My flowers may lie, […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). To Damascus. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). To Damascus Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beat On the brittle, bright stubble, And the camels fell back from the swords of the heat, Came Saul, with a fire in the soles of his feet, And a […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Daphne. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Daphne Daphne! Ladon’s daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light, Take thy thoughts of fairest texture, weave them into words of white— Weave the rhyme of rose-lipped Daphne, nymph of wooded stream and shade, Flying love of bright Apollo,—fleeting […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Other Poems (1871-82). John Dunmore Lang. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Other Poems (1871-82). John Dunmore Lang The song that is last of the many Whose music is full of thy name, Is weaker, O father! than any, Is fainter than flickering flame. But far in the folds of the mountains Whose bases are hoary […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Ogyges. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Ogyges Stand out, swift-footed leaders of the horns, And draw strong breath, and fill the hollowy cliff With shocks of clamour,—let the chasm take The noise of many trumpets, lest the hunt Should die across the dim Aonian hills, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Glass of Wine. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Glass of Wine “What’s in a glass of wine?” There, set the glass where I can look within. Now listen to me, friend, while I begin And tell you what I see– What I behold with my far-reaching eyes, And what I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Relics. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Relics This is her crochet-work, just as she left it, The spool, with the needle caught into its side, And the edging wound up in a neat little bundle; She had been knitting, the day that she died. This is her dress, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It Matters Only. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) It Matters Only Carthage has gone, and Nineveh and Tyre! Yea, thrice has Carthage in the dust been laid. Of other, older, cities, Time has made Dry kindling, for Ambition’s funeral pyre. This is the certain end of all desire. Our work must […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Knowledge. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Knowledge Would you believe in Presences Unseen– In life beyond this earthly life? BE STILL: Be stiller yet; and listen. Set the screen Of silence at the portal of your will. Relax, and let the world go by unheard. And seal your lips […]
English Poetry. George Meredith. A Certain People. Джордж Мередит.
George Meredith (Джордж Мередит) A Certain People As Puritans they prominently wax, And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks. Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks, They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks. But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks When Peace another door in them […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. December. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) December Upon December’s windy portico The Old Year stood, and looked out where the sun Went wading down the West, through drifting clouds. ‘I, too, shall sink full soon to rest,’ he sighed, ‘And follow where my children’s feet have trod; Brave January, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Woman and War. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Woman and War We women teach our little sons how wrong And how ignoble blows are; school and church Support our precepts, and inoculate The growing minds with thoughts of love and peace. “Let dogs delight to bark and bite,” we say; But […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. What I Have Seen. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) What I Have Seen NUMBER I. I saw a mother give wine to her boy– The rain-drops fall and fall: The pride of his parents, a household joy, A mother’s blessing, her all. I saw the cheek of the youth grow […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Warned. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Warned They stood at the garden gate. By the lifting of a lid She might have read her fate In a little thing he did. He plucked a beautiful flower, Tore it away from its place On the side of the blooming […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Voice of the Crutch. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Voice of the Crutch I am the voice of the crutch, And over the whole world’s noise The new world rising from the blood-stained dust And ashes, and smouldering ember– Over earth’s pæan of hopes and joys, And its reborn faith and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The New Commandment. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The New Commandment ‘Let Go the Cross’ – Gertrude Runshon I heard a strange voice in the distance calling As from a star an echo might be falling. It spoke four syllables, concise and brief, Charged with a God-sent message of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Never. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Never I said, last winter, “When the grasses grow, And there are flowers abloom in every place, And soft south winds have melted all the snow, Then I shall meet my darling face to face; And I shall clasp, and hold her hand […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Poems and Songs (1862). Morning in the Bush. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Poems and Songs (1862). Morning in the Bush (A Juvenile Fragment) Above the skirts of yellow clouds, The god-like Sun, arrayed In blinding splendour, swiftly rose, And looked athwart the glade; The sleepy dingo watched him break The bonds that curbed his flight; […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Other Poems (1871-82). To the Spirit of Music. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Other Poems (1871-82). To the Spirit of Music I The cool grass blowing in a breeze Of April valleys sooms and sways; On slopes that dip to quiet seas Through far, faint drifts of yellowing haze. I lie like one who, in a […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Early Poems (1859-70). Silent Tears. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Early Poems (1859-70). Silent Tears What bitter sorrow courses down Yon mourner’s faded cheek? Those scalding drops betray a grief Within, too full to speak. Outspoken words cannot express The pangs, the pains of years; They’re ne’er so deep or eloquent As are those […]
English Poetry. George Meredith. Lucifer in Starlight. Джордж Мередит.
George Meredith (Джордж Мередит) Lucifer in Starlight On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose. Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. And […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Poems and Songs (1862). The Opossum-Hunters. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Poems and Songs (1862). The Opossum-Hunters Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting With the winds above them fleeting, hurry to the distant seas, And a smothered sound of singing from old Ocean upwards springing, Sending hollow echoes ringing like […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Pytheas. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Pytheas Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea— Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven wreath for thee? Who amongst the world’s high singers ever breathed the tale sublime Of the man […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Bill the Bullock-Driver. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Bill the Bullock-Driver The leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, Who sway the wide world with their will And shake the great globe with the strength of their hands, Flash past us—unnoticed by Bill. The elders […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. A Ballad. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) A Ballad OLd England is now a brave Barbary made, And every one has an ambition to ride her: K. Charles was a horseman that long us’d the trade, But he rode in a snaffle, and that could not guide her. Then the […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. Palinode. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) Palinode 1. NO more, no more of this, I vow ‘Tis time to leave this fooling now, Which few but fools call Wit; There was a time when I begun, And now ’tis time I should have done, And meddle no more with […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. An Ode. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) An Ode Written in 1643. WHat’s this that shrouds, WIn these Opacous clouds, The glorious face of heav’n, and dims our light? What must we ever lye Mantled in dark stupidity? Still groveling in a daily night? And shall we have no more […]
English Poetry. John Wolcot. Modes of Courtship. Devonshire Hob’s Love. Джон Вулкотт.
John Wolcot (Джон Вулкотт) Modes of Courtship. Devonshire Hob’s Love JOANNY, my dear, wut ha poor HOB? Vor I’m upon a coortin job— Gadswunds! Iss leek thee, Joan; I’d fert vor thee — Iss, that Iss wud; Iss love thee well, as pigs love mud, Or dogs to […]
English Poetry. John Wolcot. Julia; or, the Victim of Love. Джон Вулкотт.
John Wolcot (Джон Вулкотт) Julia; or, the Victim of Love A Pastoral Ballad She is dead who gave life to the grove, And covers our valley with gloom! She who led all the Pleasures and Loves, No joins the pale band of the Tomb. She whose […]
English Poetry. John Wolcot. Lines intended to be subjoined to Dryden’s Ode on Alexander’s Feast. Джон Вулкотт.
John Wolcot (Джон Вулкотт) Lines intended to be subjoined to Dryden’s Ode on Alexander’s Feast Such is the Ode call’d ALEXANDER’S Feast, Where the great Conqu’ror is as great a Beast,— Where TIMOTHY such stories sings and tells, Who lulls his Hero in his Harlot’s lap, To take […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 10. To a President. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 10. Одному из президентов
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 10. To a President All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, You have not learn’d of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn’d the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality, You have not […]
English Poetry. Henry Vaughan. The Pursuit. Генри Воэн.
Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) The Pursuit LORD! what a busy, restless thing Hast Thou made man! Each day and hour he is on wing, Rests not a span; Then having lost the sun and light, By clouds surpris’d, He keeps a commerce in the night With air disguis’d. […]
English Poetry. William Wordsworth. The Thorn. Уильям Вордсворт. Терн
William Wordsworth (Уильям Вордсворт) The Thorn I “There is a Thorn—it looks so old, In truth, you’d find it hard to say How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and grey. Not higher than a two years’ child It stands erect, this aged […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 9. O Me! O Life!. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 9. О я! О жизнь!
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 9. O Me! O Life! O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 7. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 7. Когда я слушал ученого астронома
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 7. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure […]