English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Bereft. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Bereft Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for, Holding open a restive door, Looking down hill to a frothy shore? Summer was past and day was […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. William Blake. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) William Blake THIS is the place. Even here the dauntless soul, The unflinching hand, wrought on; till in that nook, As on that very bed, his life partook New birth, and passed. Yon river’s dusky shoal, Whereto the close-built coiling lanes unroll, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Acquainted with the Night. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain –and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Birches. Роберт Ли Фрост. Берёзы
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Birches When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. ’Out, Out–’. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) ’Out, Out–’ The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count Five mountain ranges one behind […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Lockless Door. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Lockless Door It went many years, But at last came a knock, And I though of the door With no lock to lock. I blew out the light, I tip-toed the floor, And raised both hands In prayer to […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Fire and Ice. Роберт Ли Фрост. Огонь и лёд
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Роберт Ли Фрост. Остановка зимним вечером у леса
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Nothing Gold Can Stay. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Road Not Taken. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Wind and Window Flower. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Wind and Window Flower LOVERS, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. When the frosty window veil Was melted down at noon, And the cagèd yellow bird Hung over […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Vantage Point. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Vantage Point If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Well I know where to hie me–in the dawn, To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn. There amid lolling juniper reclined, Myself unseen, I see in white defined Far […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Burden of Nineveh. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The Burden of Nineveh In our Museum galleries To-day I lingered o’er the prize Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,— Her Art for ever in fresh wise From hour to hour rejoicing me. Sighing I turned at last to win Once more […]
English Poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Томас Стернз Элиот. Любовная песнь Дж. Альфреда Пруфрока
Thomas Stearns Eliot (Томас Стернз Элиот) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma percioche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Rwose that Deck’d her Breast. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Rwose that Deck’d her Breast Poor Jenny wer her Robert’s bride Two happy years, an’ then he died; An’ zoo the wold vo’k meäde her come, Vorseäken, to her maïden hwome. But Jenny’s merry tongue wer dum’; An’ round […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Common a-took in. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Common a-took in Oh! no, Poll, no! Since they’ve a-took The common in, our lew wold nook Don’t seem a-bit as used to look When we had runnèn room; Girt banks do shut up ev’ry drong, An’ stratch wi’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. A Father out an’ Mother Hwome. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Second Collection. A Father out an’ Mother Hwome The snow-white clouds did float on high In shoals avore the sheenèn sky, An’ runnèn weäves in pon’ did cheäse Each other on the water’s feäce, As hufflèn win’ did blow between The new-leav’d boughs o’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. Our Fathers’ Works. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Second Collection. Our Fathers’ Works Ah! I do think, as I do tread Theäse path, wi’ elems overhead, A-climèn slowly up vrom Bridge, By easy steps, to Broadwoak Ridge, That all theäse roads that we do bruise Wi’ hosses’ shoes, or heavy lwoads; An’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. The Motherless Child. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Second Collection. The Motherless Child The zun’d a-zet back tother night, But in the zettèn pleäce The clouds, a-redden’d by his light, Still glow’d avore my feäce. An’ I’ve a-lost my Meäry’s smile, I thought; but still I have her chile, Zoo like her, […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. Second Collection. Hay Meäken—Nunchen Time. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) Second Collection. Hay Meäken—Nunchen Time Anne an’ John a-ta’kèn o’t. A. Back here, but now, the jobber John Come by, an’ cried, “Well done, zing on, I thought as I come down the hill, An’ heärd your zongs a-ringèn sh’ill, Who woudden like […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. A Wold Friend. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. A Wold Friend Oh! when the friends we us’d to know, ’V a-been a-lost vor years; an’ when Zome happy day do come, to show Their feäzen to our eyes ageän, Do meäke us look behind, John, Do bring wold […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Drèven o’ the Common. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Drèven o’ the Common In the common by our hwome There wer freely-open room, Vor our litty veet to roam By the vuzzen out in bloom. That wi’ prickles kept our lags Vrom the skylark’s nest ov aggs; While […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Wold Waggon. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Wold Waggon The girt wold waggon uncle had, When I wer up a hardish lad, Did stand, a-screen’d vrom het an’ wet, In zummer at the barken geäte, Below the elems’ spreadèn boughs, A-rubb’d by all the pigs an’ […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Woodspurge. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The Woodspurge The wind flapp’d loose, the wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill: I had walk’d on at the wind’s will,– I sat now, for the wind was still. Between my knees my forehead was,– My lips, […]
English Poetry. William Blake. Songs of Innocence. Night. Уильям Блейк. Песни невинности. Ночь
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) Songs of Innocence. Night THE sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest. And I must seek for mine. The moon, like a flower In heaven’s high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on […]
English Poetry. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Only a Year. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Гарриет Бичер-Стоу) Only a Year One year ago, – a ringing voice, A clear blue eye, And clustering curls of sunny hair, Too fair to die. Only a year, – no voice, no smile, No glance of eye, No clustering curls of golden hair, […]
English Poetry. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Arrival in the Land of Freedom. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Гарриет Бичер-Стоу) Arrival in the Land of Freedom Look on the travellers kneeling, In thankful gladness, here, As the boat that brought them o’er the lake, Goes steaming from the pier. ‘Tis Harry, like a girl disguised, His mother, like a boy, But the […]
English Poetry. Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Miserere. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Гарриет Бичер-Стоу) The Miserere Not of the earth that music! all things fade; Vanish the pictured walls! and, one by one, The starry candles silently expire! And now, O Jesus! round that silent cross A moment’s pause, a hush as of the grave. Now […]
English Poetry. Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the Fair Garden of Celestial Peace. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Гарриет Бичер-Стоу) * * * In the fair garden of celestial Peace Walketh a Gardener in meekness clad; Fair are the flowers that wreathe his dewy locks, And his mysterious eyes are sweet and sad. Fair are the silent foldings of his robes, Falling […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Spice-Tree. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Spice-Tree This is the song The spice-tree sings: “Hunger and fire, Hunger and fire, Sky-born Beauty— Spice of desire,” Under the spice-tree Watch and wait, Burning maidens And lads that mate. The spice-tree spreads And its boughs come down Shadowing village and […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour Just to invent a fancy style To spread the celebration paint So it would show at least a mile. Some things they did I will not tell. […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. What the Miner in the Desert Said. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) What the Miner in the Desert Said The moon’s a brass-hooped water-keg, A wondrous water-feast. If I could climb the ridge and drink And give drink to my beast; If I could drain that keg, the flies Would not be biting so, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Hearth Eternal. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Hearth Eternal There dwelt a widow learned and devout, Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill. Three sons she had, who went to find the world. They promised to return, but wandered still. The cities used them well, they won their way, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. To Jane Addams at the Hague. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) To Jane Addams at the Hague I. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen, Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart), Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen. Lady of Light, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. I Heard Immanuel Singing. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) * * * (The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.) I heard Immanuel singing Within his own good lands, I saw him bend above his harp. I watched his wandering hands […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Mirror. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The Mirror SHE knew it not:—most perfect pain To learn: this too she knew not. Strife For me, calm hers, as from the first. ‘Twas but another bubble burst Upon the curdling draught of life,— My silent patience mine again. As who, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Where Is the Real Non-Resistant. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Where Is the Real Non-Resistant (Matthew V, 38-48.) Who can surrender to Christ, dividing his best with the stranger, Giving to each what he asks, braving the uttermost danger All for the enemy, MAN? Who can surrender till death His words and his […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Beggar’s Valentine. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Beggar’s Valentine Kiss me and comfort my heart Maiden honest and fine. I am the pilgrim boy Lame, but hunting the shrine; Fleeing away from the sweets, Seeking the dust and rain, Sworn to the […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. To the United States Senate. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) To the United States Senate And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to power Upon a leering pyramid of lies? And must the Senator from Illinois […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Amaranth. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Amaranth Ah, in the night, all music haunts me here. . . . Is it for naught high Heaven cracks and yawns And the tremendous Amaranth descends Sweet with the glory of ten thousand dawns? Does it not mean my God […]