English Poetry. Francis Thompson. A Dead Astronomer. Фрэнсис Томпсон.
Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон) A Dead Astronomer (Father Perry, S.J.) Starry amorist, starward gone, Thou art–what thou didst gaze upon! Passed through thy golden garden’s bars, Thou seest the Gardener of the Stars. She, about whose moon-ed brows Seven stars make seven glows, Seven lights for […]
English Poetry. Gordon Bottomley. The End of the World. Гордон Боттомли.
Gordon Bottomley (Гордон Боттомли) The End of the World The snow had fallen many nights and days; The sky was come upon the earth at last, Sifting thinly down as endlessly As though within the system of blind planets Something had been forgot or overdriven. The dawn now […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. How Like the Sea. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) How Like the Sea How like the sea, the myriad-minded sea, Is this large love of ours: so vast, so deep, So full of mysteries! it, too, can keep Its secrets, like the ocean; and is free, Free, as the boundless main. Now […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Aquileia. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Aquileia [On the election of the Roman Emperor Maximus, by the Senate, A.D. 238, a powerful army, headed by the Thracian giant Maximus, laid siege to Aquileia. Though poorly prepared for war, the constancy of her citizens rendered her impregnable. The women […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. All Mad. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) All Mad “He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,” you say. I haven’t a doubt of your statement, But who isn’t mad, I pray? Why, the world is a great asylum, And people are all insane, Gone […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. At the Making of Man. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) At the Making of Man First all the host of Raphael In liveries of gold, Lifted the chorus on whose rhythm The spinning spheres are rolled,– The Seraphs of the morning calm Whose hearts are never cold. He shall be born a spirit, […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Tent of Noon. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Tent of Noon Behold, now, where the pageant of the high June Halts in the glowing noon! The trailing shadows rest on plain and hill; The bannered hosts are still, While over forest crown and mountain head The azure tent is spread. […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Spring’s Saraband. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Spring’s Saraband Over the hills of April With soft winds hand in hand, Impassionate and dreamy-eyed, Spring leads her saraband. Her garments float and gather And swirl along the plain, Her headgear is the golden sun, Her cloak the silver rain. With colour […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Garden Shadows. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Garden Shadows When the dawn winds whisper To the standing corn, And the rose of morning From the dark is born, All my shadowy garden Seems to grow aware Of a fragrant presence, Half expected there. In the golden shimmer Of the burning […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Winter Scene. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Winter Scene I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare woods, or the hardy bitter-sweet; Drivers have put their sheepskin jackets on; And all the ponds are sealed with sheeted […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Ships of Saint John. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Ships of Saint John Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, In beauty and stately pride? In they would come past the beacon light, With the sun on gleaming […]
English Poetry. Francis Thompson. The Mistress of Vision. Фрэнсис Томпсон.
Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон) The Mistress of Vision I Secret was the garden; Set i’ the pathless awe Where no star its breath can draw. Life, that is its warden, Sits behind the fosse of death. Mine eyes saw not, and I saw. II It […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Veni Creator. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Veni Creator I LORD of the grass and hill, Lord of the rain, White Overlord of will, Master of pain, I who am dust and air Blown through the halls of death, Like a pale ghost of prayer,— I am thy breath. […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Earth Voices. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Earth Voices I I heard the spring wind whisper Above the brushwood fire, “The world is made forever Of transport and desire. “I am the breath of being, The primal urge of things; I am the whirl of star dust, I am the […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Why. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Why FOR a name unknown, Whose fame unblown Sleeps in the hills For ever and aye; For her who hears The stir of the years Go by on the wind By night and day; And heeds no thing Of the needs […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. White Nassau. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) White Nassau There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they hoot each other down; From the Battery to Harlem there’s seven miles of slush, Through looming granite canyons of glitter, noise, […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Heart of Night. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Heart of Night When all the stars are sown Across the night-blue space, With the immense unknown, In silence face to face. We stand in speechless awe While Beauty marches by, And wonder at the Law […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Eavesdropper. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Eavesdropper In a still room at hush of dawn, My Love and I lay side by side And heard the roaming forest wind Stir in the paling autumn-tide. I watched her earth-brown eyes grow glad Because the round day was so fair; […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Rivers of Canada. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Rivers of Canada O all the little rivers that run to Hudson’s Bay, They call me and call me to follow them away. Missinaibi, Abitibi, Little Current–where they run Dancing and sparkling I see them in the sun. I hear the brawling rapid, […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. If Death be Good. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) If Death be Good (Sappho LXXIV) If death be good, Why do the gods not die? If life be ill, Why do the gods still live? If love be naught, Why do the gods still love? If love be all, What should men […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Ago. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Ago (Sappho XXIII) I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago, When the great oleanders were in flower In the broad herded meadows full of sun. And we would often at the fall of dusk Wander […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Behind the Arras. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Behind the Arras I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall feel quite at home. I love to roam. Day after day I loiter and explore From door to door; So […]
English Poetry. Francis Thompson. A Question. Фрэнсис Томпсон.
Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон) A Question O bird with heart of wassail, That toss the Bacchic branch, And slip your shaken music, An elfin avalanche; Come tell me, O tell me, My poet of the blue! What’s YOUR thought of me, Sweet?– Here’s MY thought of you. […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. A Creature Catechism. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) A Creature Catechism I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of storm We feel the primal wish Of the earth take form. Through the dim green water-fire We see […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Vagabonds. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Vagabonds We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime And all the valleys blue with haze. We came unlooked for as the wind Trooping across […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Ships of Yule. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Ships of Yule When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I called the Ships of Yule; Of every rig, from rakish brig And gallant barkentine, To little Fundy fishing boats […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Old Gray Wall. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Old Gray Wall Time out of mind I have stood Fronting the frost and the sun, That the dream of the world might endure, And the goodly will be done. Did the hand of the builder guess, […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. On Love. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) On Love TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin’s spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my friends, That as the round year ends, We meet once more for gladness by God’s leave. […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. An April Morning. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) An April Morning Once more in misted April The world is growing green. Along the winding river The plumey willows lean. Beyond the sweeping meadows The looming mountains rise, Like battlements of dreamland Against the brooding skies. In every wooded valley The […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. By the Aurelian Wall. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) By the Aurelian Wall In Memory of John Keats By the Aurelian Wall, Where the long shadows of the centuries fall From Caius Cestius’ tomb, A weary mortal seeking rest found room For quiet burial, Leaving among his friends A book of lyrics. […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. A Song before Sailing. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) A Song before Sailing Wind of the dead men’s feet, Blow down the empty street Of this old city by the sea With news for me! Blow me beyond the grime And pestilence of time! I am too sick at heart to war […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. A Sea Child. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) A Sea Child The lover of child Marjory Had one white hour of life brim full; Now the old nurse, the rocking sea, Hath him to lull. The daughter of child Marjory Hath in her veins, to beat […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Echo. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Third Collection. The Echo About the tow’r an’ churchyard wall, Out nearly overright our door, A tongue ov wind did always call Whatever we did call avore. The vaïce did mock our neämes, our cheers, Our merry laughs, our hands’ loud claps, An’ mother’s […]
English Poetry. Francis Thompson. To a Snowflake. Фрэнсис Томпсон.
Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон) To a Snowflake What heart could have thought you? – Past our devisal (O filigree petal!) Fashioned so purely, Fragilely, surely, From what Paradisal Imagineless metal, Too costly for cost? Who hammered you, wrought you, From argentine vapor? – “God was my shaper. Passing […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. Went Hwome. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Third Collection. Went Hwome Upon the slope, the hedge did bound The vield wi’ blossom-whited zide, An’ charlock patches, yollow-dyed, Did reach along the white-soil’d ground; An’ vo’k, a-comèn up vrom meäd, Brought gil’cup meal upon the shoe; Or went on where the road […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Neäme Letters. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Third Collection. The Neäme Letters When high-flown larks wer on the wing, A warm-aïr’d holiday in Spring, We stroll’d, ’ithout a ceäre or frown, Up roun’ the down at Meldonley; An’ where the hawthorn-tree did stand Alwone, but still wi’ mwore at hand, We […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. Treat well you Wife. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Third Collection. Treat well you Wife No, no, good Meäster Collins cried, Why you’ve a good wife at your zide; Zoo do believe the heart is true That gi’ed up all bezide vor you, An’ still beheäve as you begun To seek the love […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. Me’th below the Tree. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Third Collection. Me’th below the Tree O when theäse elems’ crooked boughs, A’most too thin to sheäde the cows, Did slowly swing above the grass As winds o’ Spring did softly pass, An’ zunlight show’d the shiftèn sheäde, While youthful me’th wi’ laughter loud, […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. Comen Hwome. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Third Collection. Comen Hwome As clouds did ride wi’ heästy flight, An’ woods did sway upon the height, An’ bleädes o’ grass did sheäke, below The hedge-row bremble’s swingèn bow, I come back hwome where winds did zwell, In whirls along the woody gleädes, […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. The Leädy’s Tower. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Second Collection. The Leädy’s Tower An’ then we went along the gleädes O’ zunny turf, in quiv’rèn sheädes, A-windèn off, vrom hand to hand, Along a path o’ yollow zand, An’ clomb a stickle slope, an’ vound An open patch o’ lofty ground, Up […]