English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Helena. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Helena Last night I saw Helena. She whose praise Of late all men have sounded. She for whom Young Angus rashly sought a silent tomb Rather than live without her all his days. Wise men go mad who look upon her […]
English Poetry. Alan Alexander Milne. Happiness. Алан Александр Милн.
Alan Alexander Milne (Алан Александр Милн) Happiness John had Great Big Waterproof Boots on; John had a Great Big Waterproof Hat; John had a Great Big Waterproof Mackintosh – And that (Said John) Is That. Alan Alexander Milne’s other poems: Уединение • Solitude Lines and Squares The Wrong […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Retrospection. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Retrospection I look down the lengthening distance Far back to youth’s valley of hope. How strange seemed the ways of existence, How infinite life and its scope! What dreams, what ambitions came thronging To people a world of my own! How […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Let Them Go. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Let Them Go Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Burdened. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Burdened “Genius, a man’s weapon, a woman’s burden.”-Lamartine. Dear God! there is no sadder fate in life Than to be burdened so that you can not Sit down contented with the common lot Of happy mother and devoted wife. To feel […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Life (Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Life (Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee) Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee, Doth bear us on his shoulder for a time. There is no path too steep for him to climb. With strong, lithe limbs, as agile and […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. Copernicus. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) Copernicus 1. LEt the bowl pass free From him to thee As it first came to me, ‘Tis pity that we should confine it, Having all either credit or coyn yet, Let it e’n take its course, There’s no stopping its force, He […]
English Poetry. Francis William Bourdillon. The Regions of Love. Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон.
Francis William Bourdillon (Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон) The Regions of Love Who knows the deeps, where the water sleeps Leagues from the light away? Who knows the heights, where myriad lights Fill heaven with endless day? The earth goes on—seeks and loses the sun, And men in the […]
English Poetry. Francis William Bourdillon. A Spring Evening. Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон.
Francis William Bourdillon (Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон) A Spring Evening Across the Glory of the glowing skies, A veil is drawn of shadowed mists that rise From lavishness from God’s late gift. the rain. So, after farewell said, fond memories Of words and looks, now over, come again […]
English Poetry. Francis William Bourdillon. Sonnet (Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion). Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон.
Francis William Bourdillon (Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон) Sonnet (Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion) Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion, Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well Believed her able on earth to love and dwell With whatso man she set her love upon; […]
English Poetry. Francis William Bourdillon. Christmas Roses. Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон.
Francis William Bourdillon (Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон) Christmas Roses White-faced Winter Roses, O’er the grave I plant you Where the dead reposes, That a soul may haunt you, And your ghostly whiteness In the Winter gloom, Seem some spirit-brightness Shining from the tomb! Francis William Bourdillon’s other poems: The […]
English Poetry. Francis William Bourdillon. The Heart Cry. Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон.
Francis William Bourdillon (Фрэнсис Уильям Бурдильон) The Heart Cry She turned the page of wounds and death With trembling fingers. In a breath The gladness of her life became Naught but a memory and a name. Farewell! Farewell! I might not share The perils it was yours […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Before the Mirror. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Before the Mirror I. WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden rows Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright. […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. It’s Not Going to Happen Again. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) It’s Not Going to Happen Again I have known the most dear that is granted us here, More supreme than the gods know above, Like a star I was hurled through the sweet of the world, And the height and the light of […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Sonnet Reversed. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Sonnet Reversed Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights. Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon! Soon they returned, and after strange adventures, Settled at Balham by the end of June, Their money was […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells After a Restoration I. Thomas Tremble new-made me Eighteen hundred and fifty-three: Why he did I fail to see. II. I was well-toned by William Brine, Seventeen hundred and twenty-nine; Now, re-cast, I weakly […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. To a Tree in London. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) To a Tree in London (Clement’s Inn) Here you stay Night and day, Never, never going away! Do you ache When we take Holiday for our health’s sake? Wish for feet When the heat Scalds you in the brick-built street, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Single Witness. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Single Witness ‘Did no one else, then, see them, man, Lying among the whin? Did no one else, behold them at all Commit this shameless sin, But you, in the hollow of the down No traveller’s eye takes in?’ ‘Nobody else, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Popular Personage at Home. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Popular Personage at Home ‘I live here: “Wessex” is my name: I am a dog known rather well: I guard the house; but how that came To be my whim I cannot tell. ‘With a leap and a heart elate I […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Lady Vi. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Lady Vi There goes the Lady Vi. How well, How well I know the spectacle The earth presents And its events To her sweet sight Each day and night! ‘Life is a wheeling show, with me As its pivot of interest constantly. […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Peace Peal. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Peace Peal (After Four Years of Silence) Said a wistful daw in Saint Peter’s tower, High above Casterbridge slates and tiles, ‘Why do the walls of my Gothic bower Shiver, and shrill out sounds for miles? This gray old rubble Has […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. He Inadvertently Cures His Love-Pains. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) He Inadvertently Cures His Love-Pains Song I said: ‘O let me sing the praise Of her who sweetly racks my days, – Her I adore; Her lips, her eyes, her moods, her ways!’ In miseries of pulse and pang I strung […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Beauty’s Soliloquy during Her Honeymoon. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Beauty’s Soliloquy during Her Honeymoon Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Would catch the world’s keen eyes so! How the men look at me! My radiant rareness I deemed not they would prize so! That I was […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Sestina. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Sestina I saw my soul at rest upon a day As a bird sleeping in the nest of night, Among soft leaves that give the starlight way To touch its wings but not its eyes with light; So that it knew as […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Cynic’s Epitaph. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Cynic’s Epitaph A race with the sun as he downed I ran at evetide, Intent who should first gain the ground And there hide. He beat me by some minutes then, But I triumphed anon, For when he’d to rise up again […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Will (There is no chance, no destiny, no fate). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Will (There is no chance, no destiny, no fate) There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Uselessness. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Uselessness Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall. Let me hear rather the imperious call, Which all men […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Dream (That was a curious dream; I thought the three). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Dream (That was a curious dream; I thought the three) That was a curious dream; I thought the three Great planets that are drawing near the sun With such unerring certainty begun To talk together in a mighty glee. They spoke of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Past. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Past Fling my past behind me, like a robe Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date. I have outgrown it. Wherefore should I weep And dwell up on its beauty, and its dyes Of Oriental splendour, or complain That I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Sonnet. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Sonnet Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land, A temple by the muses set apart; A perfect structure of consummate art, By artists builded and by genius planned, Beyond the reach of the apprentice hand, Beyond the ken of the untutored heart, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I Dream. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) I Dream Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of Life In the full meaning of that splendid word. Its subtle music which few men have heard, Though all may hear it, sounding through earth’s strife. Its mountain heights by mystic breezes […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Ocean of Song. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Ocean of Song In a land beyond sight or conceiving, In a land where no blight is, no wrong, No darkness, no graves, and no grieving, There lies the great ocean of song. And its waves, oh, its waves unbeholden By […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Inevitable. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Inevitable To-day I was so weary and I lay In that delicious state of semi-waking, When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, Cried loud for “mamma,” all his toys forsaking. I was so weary and I needed rest, And signed […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Nothing But Stones. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Nothing But Stones I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light. Up through broad aisles the stylish crowd […]
English Poetry. William Topaz McGonagall. Women’s Suffrage. Уильям Топаз Макгонаголл.
William Topaz McGonagall (Уильям Топаз Макгонаголл) Women’s Suffrage Fellow men! why should the lords try to despise And prohibit women from having the benefit of the parliamentary Franchise? When they pay the same taxes as you and me, I consider they ought to have the same liberty. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Unrest. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Unrest In the youth of the year, when the birds were building, When the green was showing on tree and hedge, And the tenderest light of all lights was gilding The world from zenith to outermost edge, My soul grew sad and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Two Sunsets. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Two Sunsets In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, with all that wild unrest To plunge into the great world’s strife That fills young hearts with mad desire, He saw a sunset. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Prayer (I do not undertake to say). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Prayer (I do not undertake to say) I do not undertake to say That literal answers come from Heaven, But I know this-that when I pray A comfort, a support is given That helps me rise o’er earthly things As larks soar up […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The House of Life. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The House of Life All wondering, and eager-eyed, within her portico I made my plea to Hostess Life, one morning long ago. “Pray show me this great house of thine, nor close a single door; But let me wander where I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Worth While. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Worth While It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always […]