English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 6. Thoughts. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 6. Thoughts Of ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself; Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 4. Gods. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 4. Боги
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 4. Gods Lover divine and perfect Comrade, Waiting content, invisible yet, but certain, Be thou my God. Thou, thou, the Ideal Man, Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving, Complete in body and dilate in spirit, Be […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 21. Drum-Taps. 2. Eighteen Sixty-One. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 21. Из цикла «Барабанный бой». 2. 1861
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 21. Drum-Taps. 2. Eighteen Sixty-One Arm’d year—year of the struggle, No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year, Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano, But as a strong man erect, clothed […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 2. Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 2. Европа (72-й и 73-й годы этих Штатов)
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 2. Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States] Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le’pt forth half startled at itself, Its feet upon the ashes and […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 1. A Boston Ballad [1854]. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 1. Бостонская баллада
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 1. A Boston Ballad [1854] To get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early, Here’s a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show. Clear the way there Jonathan! Way […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Lawyer’s Romance. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Lawyer’s Romance Into the mellow light of the cloudless autumn day, Somehow, the vision slips, of a landscape, far away, Wherever I turn my eyes, it hovers before them still, The little, vine-wreathed cot, on the southerly slope of the hill, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Lean Down. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Lean Down Lean down and lift me higher, Josephine! From the Eternal Hills hast thou not seen How I do strive for heights? but lacking wings, I cannot grasp at once those better things To which I in my inmost soul aspire— Lean […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Karma. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Karma I We cannot choose our sorrows. One there was Who, reverent of soul, and strong with trust, Cried, ‘God, though Thou shouldst bow me to the dust, Yet will I praise thy everlasting laws. Beggared, my faith would never halt or […]
English Poetry. Henry Vaughan. They are all Gone into the World of Light. Генри Воэн.
Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) * * * They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling’ring here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Engine. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Engine Into the gloom of the deep, dark night, With panting breath and a startled scream; Swift as a bird in sudden flight, Darts this creature of steel and steam. Awful dangers are lurking nigh, Rocks and chasms are near the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Earnestness. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Earnestness The hurry of the times affects us so In this swift rushing hour, we crowd, and press, And thrust each other backward, as we go, And do not pause to lay sufficient stress Upon that good, strong, true word, Earnestness. In our […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Harp’s Song. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Harp’s Song All day, all day in a calm like death The harp hung waiting the sea wind’s breath. When the western sky flushed red with shame At the sun’s bold kiss, the sea wind came. Said the harp to […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Heart’s Ease. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Heart’s Ease Give me work for my hands to do, Whenever I have a grief; There’s no other balm so good I ween For a wounded Heart’s relief. And give me something to think about, Something beside my pain; And let me […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Shortening Days at the Homestead. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Shortening Days at the Homestead The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room: The sun-rays thread it through, like woof-lines in a loom. Sparrows spurt from the hedge, whom misgivings appal That winter did not leave last […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Parting-Scene. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Parting-Scene The two pale women cried, But the man seemed to suffer more, Which he strove hard to hide. They stayed in the waiting-room, behind the door, Till startled by the entering engine-roar, As if they could not bear to have unfurled […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Her Haunting-Ground. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Her Haunting-Ground Can it be so? It must be so, That visions have not ceased to be In this the chiefest sanctuary Of her whose form we used to know. – Nay, but her dust is far away, And ‘where her dust is, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Sundial on a Wet Day. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Sundial on a Wet Day I drip, drip here In Atlantic rain, Falling like handfuls Of winnowed grain, Which, tear-like, down My gnomon drain, And dim my numerals With their stain, – Till I feel useless, And wrought in vain! And […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Pat of Butter. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Pat of Butter Once, at the Agricultural Show, We tasted – all so yellow – Those butter-pats, cool and mellow! Each taste I still remember, though It was so long ago. This spoke of the grass of Netherhay, And this of […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Rover Come Home. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Rover Come Home He’s journeyed through America From Canso Cape to Horn, And from East Indian Comorin To Behring’s Strait forlorn; He’s felled trees in the backwoods, In swamps has gasped for breath; In Tropic heats, in Polar ice, Has often prayed […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. Amelia. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) Amelia Whene’er mine eyes do my Amelia greet It is with such emotion As when, in childhood, turning a dim street, I first beheld the ocean. There, where the little, bright, surf-breathing town, That shew’d me first her beauty and the sea, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Watering-Place Lady Inventoried. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Watering-Place Lady Inventoried A sweetness of temper unsurpassed and unforgettable, A mole on the cheek whose absence would have been regrettable, A ripple of pleasant converse full of modulation, A bearing of inconveniences without vexation, Till a cynic would find her amiability […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Protean Maiden. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Protean Maiden (Song) This single girl is two girls: How strange such things should be! One noon eclipsed by few girls, The next no beauty she. And daily cries the lover, In voice and feature vext: ‘My last impression of […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Early Poems (1859-70). Tanna. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Early Poems (1859-70). Tanna (The Kanaka’s Death-Song over his Chieftain.) Shades of my father, the hour is approaching. Prepare ye the ‘cava’ for ‘Yona’ on high; Make ready the welcome, ye souls of Arrochin. The Death God of Tanna speaks—Yona must die. […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Poems and Songs (1862). Doubting. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Poems and Songs (1862). Doubting A Brother wandered forth with me, Beside a barren beach: He harped on things beyond the sea, And out of reach. He hinted once of unknown skies, And then I would not hark, But turned away from steadfast […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). The Voice in the Wild Oak. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). The Voice in the Wild Oak (Written in the shadow of 1872) Twelve years ago, when I could face High heaven’s dome with different eyes— In days full-flowered with hours of grace, And nights not sad with sighs— […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Mooni. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Mooni (Written in the shadow of 1872) Ah, to be by Mooni now, Where the great dark hills of wonder, Scarred with storm and cleft asunder By the strong sword of the thunder, Make a night on morning’s […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Hy-Brasil. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Hy-Brasil “Daughter,” said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea, “Turn thy face towards the sunset—turn thy face and kneel with me! Prayer and praise and holy fasting, lips of love and life of light, These and these […]
English Poetry. John Wolcot. In Imitation of Spenser, Written at Santa Cruz. Джон Вулкотт.
John Wolcot (Джон Вулкотт) In Imitation of Spenser, Written at Santa Cruz Behold in those lorn shades a Damsel dwell— I ween the fairest amongst all the fair— Awhile doth VIRTUE bid her sky farewel, To live with Sylvia, passing all compare. Eke Innocence doth leave her bower […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 19. Sea-Drift. 11. After the Sea-Ship. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 19. Sea-Drift. 11. After the Sea-Ship After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 8. Perfections. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 8. Perfections Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls. Walt Whitman’s other poems: Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 10. To the Pending Year Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. The Woodman’s Daughter. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) The Woodman’s Daughter In Gerald’s Cottage by the hill, Old Gerald and his child, Innocent Maud, dwelt happily; He toil’d, and she beguiled The long day at her spinning-wheel, In the garden now grown wild. At Gerald’s stroke the jay awoke; Till noon […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 3. A Hand-Mirror. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 20. Из цикла «У дороги». 3. Ручное зеркало
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 3. A Hand-Mirror Hold it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?) Outside fair costume, within ashes and filth, No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 19. Sea-Drift. 9. Song for All Seas, All Ships. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 19. Sea-Drift. 9. Song for All Seas, All Ships 1 To-day a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal, Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 19. Sea-Drift. 5. Aboard at a Ship’s Helm. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 19. Из цикла «Морские течения». 5. Молодой рулевой у штурвала
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 19. Sea-Drift. 5. Aboard at a Ship’s Helm Aboard at a ship’s helm, A young steersman steering with care. Through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing, An ocean-bell—O a warning bell, rock’d by the waves. O you give good […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Waft of Perfume. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Waft of Perfume A waft of perfume from a bit of lace, Moved lightly by a passing woman’s hand; And on the common street, a sensuous grace Shone suddenly from some lost time and land. Tall structures changed to dome and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Questioning. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Questioning TO MY LOVED AND LOST FRIEND JANE CRAMER, AGED 20. Where have you been, through all these months, my dear one, Since you went forth alone that Autumn day? Through what great unknown vastness have you wandered? And were you never […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Birth of Jealousy. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Birth of Jealousy With brooding mien and sultry eyes, Outside the gates of Paradise Eve sat, and fed the faggot flame That lit the path whence Adam came. (Strange are the workings of a woman’s mind.) His giant shade preceded him, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. An Autumn Reverie. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) An Autumn Reverie Through all the weary, hot midsummer time, My heart has struggled with its awful grief. And I have waited for these autumn days, Thinking the cooling winds would bring relief. For I remembered how I loved them once, When all […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Nirvana. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Nirvana A drop of water risen from the ocean Forgot its cause, and spake with deep emotion Unto a passing breeze. ‘How desolate And all forlorn is my unhappy fate. I know not whence I came, or where I go. Scorched by the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Mysteries. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Mysteries In God’s vast wisdom, infinite and grand– Too vast, too infinite, for mortal mind– There are some things I cannot understand. In all His paths, in all His ways, I find Some subtle mysteries of life and death– Some marvels that I […]