English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Especially When the October Wind. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea’s side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. Along The Field as We Came By. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) * * * ALONG the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone Was talking to itself alone. ‘Oh who are these that kiss and pass? A country lover and his […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Was There a Time. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Was There a Time Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children’s circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could cry over books, But time has set its maggot on their track. Under the arc of the sky […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. In My Craft or Sullen Art. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Elegy. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Elegy Too proud to die; broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day. Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Poem in October. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Poem in October It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore The morning beckon With water praying and call of seagull and rook And the knock of […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. All All and All the Dry Worlds Lever. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * I All all and all the dry worlds lever, Stage of the ice, the solid ocean, All from the oil, the pound of lava. City of spring, the governed flower, Turns in the earth that turns the ashen Towns around […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Fern Hill. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Fern Hill Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Song of Faith. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Song of Faith My glass of life with its brew of Being, I lift, with a toast, to the Universe. Though black guns bellow and mad men curse And a sick world hurries from bad to worse I trust in the might […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. Last Poems. 10. Could Man Be Drunk for Ever. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) Last Poems. 10. Could Man Be Drunk for Ever Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down at nights. But men at whiles are sober And think […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Somewhere. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Somewhere Somewhere there is a spot of ground, Covered with grass, or snow, may be, That one day will be spaded ’round And dug up to make room for me. And I unconsciously have trod, Perhaps, and so again may tread Upon […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Snowflake. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Snowflake All sheltered by the mother-cloud The little flake looked down; It saw the city’s seething crowd, It saw the shining town. “How fair and far those steeples rise To greet us, mother dear! It is so lovely in the skies, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Shrines. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Shrines About a holy shrine or sacred place Where many hearts have bowed in earnest prayer, The loveliest spirits congregate from space, And bring their sweet uplifting influence there. If in your chamber you pray oft and well, Soon will these angel […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Satiety. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Satiety To yearn for what we have not had, to sit With hungry eyes glued on the Future’s gate, Why that is heaven compared to having it With all the power gone to appreciate. Better to wait and yearn, and still to […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Five Kisses. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Five Kisses I THE MOTHER’S KISS Love breathed a secret to her listening heart, And said, “Be silent.” Though she guarded it, And dwelt as one within a world apart, Yet sun and star seemed by that secret lit; And where […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Geraldine. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Geraldine Just as the sun went bathing in a sea Of liquid amber, flecked with caps of gold, I told The sweet old story unto Geraldine, my Queen, Who long hath made the whole of life for me. But though she smiled […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Jamie. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Jamie In through the kitchen, the boys came trooping: Will, and Sammy, and Bob and Fred, And Johnny and Jamie, the twins, came after, Setting the rafters, a-ring with laughter. Woe for the words I said! I looked at the floor I had […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Ballot. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Ballot So you are through with it, Through with the strain of the fight, And the ballot is won– Now what will you do with it? How will you prove you were right In the things said and done? Oh, in […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Blind Sorrow. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Blind Sorrow One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain. Nothing could rouse me from my sullen […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Captive. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Captive My lady is robed for the ball to-night, All in a shimmer and silken sheen. She glides down the stairs like a thing of light, The ballroom’s beautiful queen. Priceless gems on her bosom glow– Half hid by laces a […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Poet. Томас Гарди (Харди). Поэт
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Poet Attentive eyes, fantastic heed, Assessing minds, he does not need, Nor urgent writs to sup or dine, Nor pledges in the roseate wine. For loud acclaim he does not care By the august or rich or fair, Nor for smart […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Camouflage. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Camouflage Camouflage is all the rage. Ladies in their fight with age– Soldiers in their fight with foes– Demagogues who mask and pose In the guise of statesmen–girls Black of eyes with golden curls– Politicians, votes in mind, Smiling, affable and kind, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Peace of Allah. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Peace of Allah I pray the prayer the Easterns do, May the Peace of Allah abide with you. Wherever you stay, wherever you go, May the beautiful palms of Allah grow. Through the days of labor and the — nights of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Peek-a-Boo. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Peek-a-Boo The cunningest thing that a baby can do Is the very first time it plays peek-a-boo; When it hides its pink little face in its hands, And crows, and shows that it understands What nurse, and mamma and papa, too, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Over the May Hill. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Over the May Hill All through the night-time, and all through the day-time, Dreading the morning and dreading the night, Nearer and nearer we drift to the May-time Season of beauty and season of blight, Leaves on the linden, and sun on the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Only a Line. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Only a Line Only a line in the paper, That somebody read aloud, At a table of languid boarders, To the dull indifferent crowd. Markets and deaths–and a marriage: And the reader read them all. How could he know a hope died […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Old. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Old They stood together at the garden gate; They heard the night bird calling to his mate; The sun had set, And all the vines upon the summer bowers, The long green grasses, and the blooming flowers Were dewy wet. The sun’s […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Lais When Young. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Lais When Young Lais when young, and all her charms in flower, Lais, whose beauty was the fateful light That led great ships to anchor in the night And bring their priceless cargoes to her bower, Lais yet found her cup of sweet […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Lady of Tears. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Lady of Tears Through valley and hamlet and city, Wherever humanity dwells, With a heart full of infinite pity, A breast that with sympathy swells, She walks in her beauty immortal. Each household grows sad as she nears, But she crosses at […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Our Eunuch Dreams. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Our Eunuch Dreams I Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, Of light and love the tempers of the heart, Whack their boys’ limbs, And, winding-footed in their shawl and sheet, Groom the dark brides, the widows of the night Fold in […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. I, in My Intricate Image. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * I I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels, Forged in man’s minerals, the brassy orator Laying my ghost in metal, The scales of this twin world tread on the double, My half ghost in armour hold hard in […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. On a Fine Morning. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) On a Fine Morning I Whence comes Solace?–Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not from noting Life’s conditions, Nor from heeding Time’s monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream, And in gazing at the gleam Whereby gray things golden seem. […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. I See the Boys of Summer. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) I See the Boys of Summer I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils; There in their heat the winter floods Of frozen loves they fetch their girls, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Now. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Now Now Say nay, Man dry man, Dry lover mine The deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor, Should he, for centre sake, hop in the dust, Forsake, the fool, the hardiness of anger. Now Say nay, Sir no say, Death to the […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Then Was My Neophyte. Дилан Томас. Тогда мой неофит
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Then was my neophyte, Child in white blood bent on its knees Under the bell of rocks, Ducked in the twelve, disciple seas The winder of the water-clocks Calls a green day and night. My sea hermaphrodite, Snail of man in […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. The Seed-At-Zero. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) The Seed-At-Zero The seed-at-zero shall not storm That town of ghosts, the trodden womb, With her rampart to his tapping, No god-in-hero tumble down Like a tower on the town Dumbly and divinely stumbling Over the manwaging line. The seed-at-zero shall not […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Author’s Prologue. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Author’s Prologue This day winding down now At God speeded summer’s end In the torrent salmon sun, In my seashaken house On a breakneck of rocks Tangled with chirrup and fruit, Froth, flute, fin, and quill At a wood’s dancing hoof, By scummed, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. There Was a Saviour. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * There was a saviour Rarer than radium, Commoner than water, crueller than truth; Children kept from the sun Assembled at his tongue To hear the golden note turn in a groove, Prisoners of wishes locked their eyes In the jails and […]