English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 3. Song of Myself. 2. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 3. Песня о себе. 2
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 3. Song of Myself. 2 38 Enough! enough! enough! Somehow I have been stunn’d. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuff’d head, slumbers, dreams, gaping, I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. That […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 3. Song of Myself. 1. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 3. Песня о себе. 1
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 3. Song of Myself. 1 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 2. Starting from Paumanok. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 2. Рожденный на Поманоке
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 2. Starting from Paumanok 1 Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Rover. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Rover No classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages— No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse’s thought engages. Let others choose the mighty dead, And sing their battles over! My champion, too, has fought […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Poems and Songs (1862). Wollongong. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Poems and Songs (1862). Wollongong Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the time When we trod these sands together, in our boyhood’s golden prime; Let me lift again the curtain, while I gaze upon the past, As the sailor glances […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Lilith. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Lilith Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing Falters because of the vision it sees; Voice that is not of the living is ringing Down in the depths where the darkness is clinging, Even when Noon […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Poems and Songs (1862). Etheline. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Poems and Songs (1862). Etheline The heart that once was rich with light, And happy in your grace, Now lieth cold beneath the scorn That gathers on your face; And every joy it knew before, And every templed dream, Is paler than the dying […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Ballad of Death. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) A Ballad of Death Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of mirth, Cover thy lips and eyelids, let thine ears Be filled with rumour of people sorrowing; Make thee […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Plea to Peace. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Plea to Peace When mighty issues loom before us, all The petty great men of the day seem small, Like pigmies standing in a blaze of light Before some grim majestic mountain-height. War, with its bloody and impartial hand, Reveals the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Attainment. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Attainment Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or change your fate; In your own self lies Destiny. Let this Vast truth cast out all fear, all prejudice, […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Satyr of Money. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Satyr of Money 1. IT is not the Silver or Gold of its self, That makes men adore it; but ’tis for its power: For no man does dote upon pelf, because pelf; But all court the Lady in hopes of her […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Advice. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Advice 1. HE that a happy life would lead, In these dayes of distraction, Let him listen to me, and I will read A lecture without faction; Let him want three things, Whence misery springs, All which do begin with a letter; […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. For General Monk His Entertainment at Cloath-Workers-Hall. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) For General Monk His Entertainment at Cloath-Workers-Hall 1. RIng Bells! and let bone-fires out-blaze the Sun! Let ecchoes contribute their voice! Since now a happy settlement’s begun, Let all things tell how all good men▪ rejoyce. If these sad Lands by this, Can […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 28. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 28 In such time As it takes to turn a leaf, we are in heaven; Making our way among the wheeling worlds, Millions of suns, half infinite each, and space, For ever shone into, for ever dark, As deity to […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 17. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 17 But dimmed, Drowned, lost all this, like an eye in tears of mirth, Like a star setting in a twinkling sea, Mid revellings, song and dance, wild glee and wine, Where beauty’s orb rules, lady of the hour, More […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 33. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 33 As in our sky sometimes a vaporous mass Low down, shows thunder threatening; while by winds Of happier, if adverse wing fanned, high up, Unutterably extolled, a cloud–stream clear, Tinged as with ghostliest silver, spreads, opposed, Its shadowy waveletage, […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 4. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 4 Now sets the youth out for joy, the city of joy, Whose walls illuminated with all–hued spheres Beacon the immense of life. He, ‘neath the care Of his kindly enemy, begins his course; Each aiding other; all beside abused. […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 22. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 22 Not all regardless, meanwhile, for dear heart So lost, but elsewhere bent, through many a sphere, Celestial precincts quit, our venturous soul, Heaven’s varied vast of worlds having long essayed, Of spirits sublime consociate, now returned, To his life’s […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. A Dream. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) A Dream Amid the mystic fields of Love I wander’d, and beheld a grove. Breathlessly still was part, and part Was breathing with an easy heart; And there below, in lamblike game, Were virgins, all so much the same, That each was all. […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 11. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 11 That aëry lodestone, operant still, The love of boundless knowledge, leads us down Deeplier than ever leadline went, to search The central rayless light we have within, And learn, that, touched albeit all mysteries, traced Orb–founding theories sagest, handled […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 38. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 38 Union of God with nature man their son Hymns; and heaven thanking for all earthly good Perfected in humanity, with his bride, Sibylline, he,–as prophet bards of old Their morn and noontide service,–chants, alterne, Earth’s evensong, earth’s vespers; night […]
English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 7. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
Philip James Bailey (Филип Джеймс Бэйли) Festus – 7 A man in love sees wonders naturally. Ours sole,–abnormal gifts but gradual given, Can make participable his starry views, And intuitions spiritual instilled, May be, by angel kind of other worlds. An ominous parable told by his love, endured, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 24. Thou Reader. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 24. В тебе, читатель
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 24. Thou Reader Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I, Therefore for thee the following chants. Перевод на русский язык Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 24. В тебе, читатель В тебе, читатель, трепещет […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 23. To You. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 23. Тебе
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 23. To You Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Перевод на русский язык Листья травы. 1. Из цикла […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 22. Poets to Come. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 22. Поэтам, которые будут
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 22. Poets to Come Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 21. Shut Not Your Doors. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 21. Не закрывайте дверей
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 21. Shut Not Your Doors Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves, yet needed most, I bring, Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 17. Birds of Passage. 5. Myself and Mine. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 17. Birds of Passage. 5. Myself and Mine Myself and mine gymnastic ever, To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children, To speak readily and […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 5. Calamus. 26. No Labor-Saving Machine. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 5. Из цикла «Аир благовонный». 26. Нет на моем счету
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 5. Calamus. 26. No Labor-Saving Machine No labor-saving machine, Nor discovery have I made, Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found hospital or library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America, Nor […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 20. Still Though the One I Sing. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 20. Пусть безмятежен тот, кого я пою
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 20. Still Though the One I Sing Still though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!). Перевод на русский […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. The Toys. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) The Toys My little Son, who look’d from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey’d, I struck him, and dismiss’d With hard words and unkiss’d, —His Mother, who was patient, being dead. Then, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 19. What Place Is Besieged?. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 19. Где осажденная крепость?
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 19. What Place Is Besieged? What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege? Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal, And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery, And artillery-men, […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 17. The Ship Starting. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 17. The Ship Starting Lo, the unbounded sea, On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails. The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately— below emulous waves press forward, They […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 16. Savantism. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 16. Savantism Thither as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated, Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute, Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates; Thither […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 14. To a Certain Cantatrice. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 14. Некоей певице
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 14. To a Certain Cantatrice Here, take this gift, I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general, One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race, Some brave […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 11. Beginners. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 11. Beginners How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,) How dear and dreadful they are to the earth, How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 13. On Journeys Through the States. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 13. On Journeys Through the States On journeys through the States we start, (Ay through the world, urged by these songs, Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,) We willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 12. To the States. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 1. Из цикла «Посвящения». 12. Штатам
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 12. To the States To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 10. Beginning My Studies. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 10. Beginning My Studies Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much, The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion, The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love, The first step I say awed […]
English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 8. For Him I Sing. Уолт Уитмен.
Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 1. Inscriptions. 8. For Him I Sing For him I sing, I raise the present on the past, (As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,) With time and space I him dilate and fuse the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Repetition. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Repetition Over and over and over These truths I will weave in song— That God’s great plan needs you and me, That will is greater than destiny, And that love moves the world along. However mankind may doubt it, It shall listen […]