English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Generations of Men. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Generations of Men A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come together. And those of the name Stark gathered in Bow, A rock-strewn town […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Flower Boat. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Flower Boat The fisherman’s swapping a yarn for a yarn Under the hand of the village barber, And her in the angle of house and barn His deep-sea dory has found a harbor. At anchor she rides the sunny […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Cocoon. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Cocoon As far as I can see this autumn haze That spreading in the evening air both way, Makes the new moon look anything but new, And pours the elm-tree meadow full of blue, Is all the smoke from one […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Census-Taker. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Census-Taker I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and one window and one door, The only dwelling in a waste cut over A hundred square miles round it in the mountains: And […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Ax-Helve. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Ax-Helve I’ve known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the woods, to hold my hand From striking at another alder’s roots, And that was, as I say, an alder […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Plowmen. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Plowmen A plow, they say, to plow the snow. They cannot mean to plant it, no– Unless in bitterness to mock At having cultivated rock. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: The Investment Reluctance What Fifty Said Looking for a Sunset Bird […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Place for a Third. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Place for a Third Nothing to say to all those marriages! She had made three herself to three of his. The score was even for them, three to three. But come to die she found she cared so much: She thought […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Triumph of Woman. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Triumph of Woman Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o’er distant lands has sped, The night-blast wildly howling round his head, Known all the woes of want, and felt the storm Of […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Our Singing Strength. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Our Singing Strength It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm The flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes spent themselves to make it wet and cold, And still they failed of any lasting hold. They made […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Pauper Witch of Grafton. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Pauper Witch of Grafton Now that they’ve got it settled whose I be, I’m going to tell them something they won’t like: They’ve got it settled wrong, and I can prove it. Flattered I must be to have two towns fighting […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Hundred Collars. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Hundred Collars Lancaster bore him–such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn’t see him often Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead And sends the children down there with their mother To […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Brook in the City. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Brook in the City The firm house lingers, though averse to square With the new city street it has to wear A number in. But what about the brook That held the house as in an elbow-crook? I ask as […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Boundless Moment. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Boundless Moment He halted in the wind, and–what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to believe the most. ’Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom,’ […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Wood-Pile. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Wood-Pile Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, ’I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther- and we shall see’. The hard snow held me, save where now and then […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Self-Seeker. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Self-Seeker ”Willis, I didn’t want you here to-day: The lawyer’s coming for the company. I’m going to sell my soul, or, rather, feet. Five hundred dollars for the pair, you know.” ”With you the feet have […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Mountain. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Mountain The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed that I missed stars in the west, Where its black body cut into the sky. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Bonfire. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Bonfire “OH, let’s go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow. Oh, let’s not wait […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Meeting and Passing. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Meeting and Passing As I went down the hill along the wall There was a gate I had leaned at for the view And had just turned from when I first saw you As you came up the hill. We met. […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. To Mary Wollstonecraft. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) To Mary Wollstonecraft The lilly cheek, the “purple light of love,” The liquid lustre of the melting eye,– Mary! of these the Poet sung, for these Did Woman triumph! with no angry frown View this degrading conquest. At that age No MAID OF ARC […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. In a Vale. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) In a Vale WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale By a misty fen that rang all night, And thus it was the maidens pale I knew so well, whose garments trail Across the reeds to a window light. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Telephone. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Telephone ‘When I was just as far as I could walk From here today, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head again a flower I heard you talk. Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say– […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. An Encounter. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) An Encounter ONCE on the kind of day called “weather breeder,” When the heat slowly hazes and the sun By its own power seems to be undone, I was half boring through, half climbing through A swamp of cedar. Choked with […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There’d been some Boston people out to see it: And experts said that deep down in […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Cliff Dwelling. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Cliff Dwelling There sandy seems the golden sky And golden seems the sandy plain. No habitation meets the eye Unless in the horizon rim, Some halfway up the limestone wall, That spot of black is not a stain Or shadow, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. To E.T.. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) To E.T. I slumbered with your poems on my breast Spread open as I dropped them half-read through Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb To see, if in a dream they brought of you, I might not […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Times Table. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Times Table More than halfway up the pass Was a spring with a broken drinking glass, And whether the farmer drank or not His mare was sure to observe the spot By cramping the wheel on a water-bar, turning her […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Peaceful Shepherd. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Peaceful Shepherd If heaven were to do again, And on the pasture bars, I leaned to line the figures in Between the dotted starts, I should be tempted to forget, I fear, the Crown of Rule, The Scales of […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Onset. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Onset Always the same, when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as white As may be in dark woods, and with a song It shall not make again all winter long Of hissing on the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Demiurge’s Laugh. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Demiurge’s Laugh It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon’s trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god. i was just as the light was beginning to fail […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. Jaspar. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) Jaspar Jaspar was poor, and want and vice Had made his heart like stone, And Jaspar look’d with envious eyes On riches not his own. On plunder bent abroad he went Towards the close of day, And loitered on the lonely road Impatient […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Code. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Code There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always lifted toward the west Where an irregular sun-bordered cloud Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Bear. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Bear The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye, Then lets it snap back upright in the sky. Her next step […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Snow. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Snow The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and then blew free again—the Coles Dressed, but dishevelled from some hours of sleep, Meserve belittled in the great skin coat […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Range-Finding. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Range-Finding The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird’s nest Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so hung. And still the bird revisited her young. A butterfly its […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Paul’s Wife. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Paul’s Wife To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, ”How is the wife, Paul?”–and he’d disappear. Some said it was because be bad no wife, And hated to be twitted on […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. New Hampshire. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) New Hampshire I met a lady from the South who said (You won’t believe she said it, but she said it): ”None of my family ever worked, or had A thing to sell.” I don’t suppose the work Much matters. You […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Maple. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Maple Her teacher’s certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and he told her, ”Maple— Maple is right.” ”But teacher told the school There’s no such name.” ”Teachers don’t know as […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Lodged. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Lodged The rain to the wind said, ’You push and I’ll pelt.’ They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged–though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Bond and Free. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Bond and Free Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about– Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Though has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. On […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. To the Thawing Wind. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) To the Thawing Wind COME with rain. O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; make the settled snowbank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; But whate’er you do tonight, bath my window, […]