English Poetry. Robert Southey. Mary. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) Mary A Ballad I. Who is she, the poor Maniac, whose wildly-fix’d eyes Seem a heart overcharged to express? She weeps not, yet often and deeply she sighs, She never complains, but her silence implies The composure of settled distress. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. To Earthward. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) To Earthward Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The scent of — was it musk From hidden grapevine springs […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Investment. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Investment Over back where they speak of life as staying (’You couldn’t call it living, for it ain’t’), There was an old, old house renewed with paint, And in it a piano loudly playing. Out in the plowed ground […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Sand Dunes. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Sand Dunes Sea waves are green and wet, But up from where they die, Rise others vaster yet, And those are brown and dry. They are the sea made land To come at the fisher town, And bury in solid […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Riders. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Riders The surest thing there is is we are riders, And though none too successful at it, guiders, Through everything presented, land and tide And now the very air, of what we ride. What is this talked-of mystery of birth […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Now Close the Windows. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Now Close the Windows Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The west was getting out of gold, The breath of air had died of cold, When shoeing home across the white, I thought I saw a bird alight. In summer when I passed the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Hannibal. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Hannibal Was there even a cause too lost, Ever a cause that was lost too long, Or that showed with the lapse of time to vain For the generous tears of youth and song? Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Dream Pang. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Dream Pang I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway; And to the forest edge you came one day (This was my dream) and looked and pondered long, But did not enter, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Fear. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Fear A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their lurching shadows on a house Near by, all dark in every glossy window. A horse’s hoof pawed once the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight When I spread out my hand here today, I catch no more than a ray To feel of between thumb and fingers; No lasting effect of it lingers. There was one time and […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. Hold Your Mad Hands. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) * * * Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? For ever must your Niger’s tainted flood, Roll to the ravenous shark his banquet slain? Hold your mad hands! and learn at length […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Good-by and Keep Cold. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Good-by and Keep Cold This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen to harm An orchard away at the end of the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Going for Water. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Going for Water The well was dry beside the door, And so we went with pail and can Across the fields behind the house To seek the brook if still it ran; Not loth to have excuse to go, Because […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Fireflies in the Garden. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Fireflies in the Garden Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Acceptance. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Acceptance When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. What Fifty Said. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) What Fifty Said When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. I suffered like a metal being cast. I went to school to age to learn the past. Now […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Two Look at Two. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Two Look at Two Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the mountain side With night so near, but not much further up. They must have halted soon in any case With thoughts of a path back, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. One Step Backward Taken. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) One Step Backward Taken Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance Bumped heads together dully And started down the gully. Whole capes caked off in slices. I felt […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. But Outer Space. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) * * * But outer Space, At least this far, For all the fuss Of the populace Stays more popular Than populous Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The Investment Reluctance Pan with Us Never […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Peck of Gold. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Peck of Gold Dust always blowing about the town, Except when sea-fog laid it down, And I was one of the children told Some of the blowing dust was gold. All the dust the wind blew high Appeared like […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Oven Bird. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Holly-Tree. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Holly-Tree O reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist’s sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Christmas Trees. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Christmas Trees (A Christmas Circular Letter) THE CITY had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Span of Life. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Span of Life The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: What Fifty Said Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The Investment The Times Table Reluctance 882 […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Aim Was Song. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Aim Was Song Before man came to blow it right The wind once blew itself untaught, And did its loudest day and night In any rough place where it caught. Man came to tell it what was wrong: I hadn’t […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To hear us talk) The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not bar Our passage to our journey’s end for good, But just to […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. An Old Man’s Winter Night. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) An Old Man’s Winter Night All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze Was the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Late Walk. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Late Walk When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew, Half closes the garden path. And when I come to the garden ground, The whir of sober birds Up […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Door in the Dark. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Door in the Dark In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Death of the Hired Man. Роберт Ли Фрост. Смерть батрака
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Death of the Hired Man Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage To meet him in the doorway with the news And put […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the daylong voice of Eve Had added to their own an oversound, Her tone of […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Asking For Roses. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Asking For Roses A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster; It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses. I pass by […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Widow. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Widow Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snows fell, Wide were the downs and shelterless and naked, When a poor Wanderer struggled on her journey Weary and way-sore. Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflexions; Cold was the night […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Pasture. Роберт Ли Фрост. Пастбище
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Pasture I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I shan’t be gone long. — You come too. I’m going out to fetch the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Home Burial. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Home Burial He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over her shoulder at some fear. She took a doubtful step and then undid it To raise herself and look […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Desert Places. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it—it […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Into My Own. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Into My Own One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto th eedge of doom. I should […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Love and a Question. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Love and a Question A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in his hand, And, for all burden, care. He asked with the eyes more […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Girl’s Garden. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Girl’s Garden A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked her father To give her a garden […]