English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Yankee Doodle. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Yankee Doodle This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orotund fashion. It is presumably an exercise for an entertainment […]
English Poetry. Wilfred Owen. Dulce et Decorum Est. Уилфред Оуэн. Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen (Уилфред Оуэн) Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Strength of the Lonely. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said) The moon’s a monk, unmated, Who walks his cell, the sky. His strength is that of heaven-vowed men Who all life’s flames defy. They turn to stars or shadows, They go like […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) * * * Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sat gossiping with Robert. (She was really a raving beauty in her day. With Mary Pickford curls in clouds and whirls.) She was trying to think of something nice to say, So she pointed to a page […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Sunshine. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Sunshine FOR A VERY LITTLE GIRL, NOT A YEAR OLD. CATHARINE FRAZEE WAKEFIELD. The sun gives not directly The coal, the diamond crown; Not in a special basket Are these from Heaven let down. The sun gives not directly The plough, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Hope of the Resurrection. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Hope of the Resurrection Though I have watched so many mourners weep O’er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep— Those dead seemed but the shadows of my days That passed and left me in the sun’s bright rays. Now though […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) General William Booth Enters into Heaven [To be sung to the tune of The Blood of the Lamb with indicated instrument] I [Bass drum beaten loudly.] Booth led boldly with his big bass drum – (Are you washed […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Sweet Briars of the Stairways. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Sweet Briars of the Stairways We are happy all the time Even when we fight: Sweet briars of the stairways, Gay fairies of the grime; We, who are playing to-night. ”Our feet are in the gutters, Our […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Prarie Battlements. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Prarie Battlements (To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect) HERE upon the prarie Is our ancestral hall. Agate is the dome, Cornelian the wall. Ghouls are in the cellar, But fays upon the stairs. And here […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. On the Garden Wall. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) On the Garden Wall OH, once I walked a garden In dreams. ’Twas yellow grass. And many orange-trees grew there In sand as white as glass. The curving, wide wall-border Was marble, like the snow. I walked […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Genesis. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Genesis I was but a half-grown boy, You were a girl-child slight. Ah, how weary you were! You had led in the bullock-fight… We slew the bullock at length With knives and maces of stone. And so […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Moon is a Painter. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Moon is a Painter He coveted her portrait. He toiled as she grew gay. She loved to see him labor In that devoted way. And in the end it pleased her, But bowed him more with care. Her rose-smile showed so […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Pax Britannica. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Pax Britannica Behind her rolling ramparts England lay, Impregnable, and girt by cliff-built towers, Weaving to peace and plenty, day by day, The long-drawn hours. In peace Spring freed her flocks and showered her grain, Summer sate smiling under peaceful leaves, And Autumn […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign I LOOK on the specious electrical light Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white, Wickedly red or malignantly green Like the beads of a young Senegambian queen. Showing, while millions of souls hurry on, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Winter Eden. Роберт Ли Фрост. Зимний рай
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Winter Eden A winter garden in an alder swamp, Where conies now come out to sun and romp, As near a paradise as it can be And not melt snow or start a dormant tree. It lifts existence on a […]
English Poetry. Alan Alexander Milne. Solitude. Алан Александр Милн. Уединение
Alan Alexander Milne (Алан Александр Милн) Solitude I have a house where I go When there’s too many people, I have a house where I go Where no one can be; I have a house where I go, Where nobody ever says ‘No’; Where no one says anything- […]
English Poetry. William Cullen Bryant. Thanatopsis. Уильям Каллен Брайант. Танатопсис
William Cullen Bryant (Уильям Каллен Брайант) Thanatopsis To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and […]
English Poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot. The Boston Evening Transcript. Томас Стернз Элиот. Бостон ивнинг трэнскрипт
Thomas Stearns Eliot (Томас Стернз Элиот) The Boston Evening Transcript The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. When evening quickens faintly in the street, Wakening the appetites of life in some And to others bringing the Boston […]
English Poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot. Whispers of Immortality. Томас Стернз Элиот. Щепотки бессмертия
Thomas Stearns Eliot (Томас Стернз Элиот) Whispers of Immortality Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Because That You Are Going. Эмили Дикинсон. Поскольку ты уходишь
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track — Because that Death is final, However first it be, This instant be suspended Above Mortality — Significance that each has […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. It’s Coming — the Postponeless Creature. Эмили Дикинсон. Подходит — не отложит Встречу
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * It’s coming — the postponeless Creature — It gains the Block — and now — it gains the Door — Chooses its latch, from all the other fastenings — Enters — with a “You know Me — Sir”? Simple […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. There Is No Frigate Like a Book. Эмили Дикинсон. Нет лучше Фрегата — чем Книга
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry— This Traverse may the poorest take Without opress of Toll— How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human […]
English Poetry. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Love is Not All. Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей. Любовь еще не все…
Edna St. Vincent Millay (Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей) Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Let Us Fly!. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Let Us Fly! Let us fly! It is long past eleven; The watch-dogs are silent; the moon Hath all but abandoned the heaven, And midnight is sinking in swoon. Not a chirp to be heard in the thicket; The kine are asleep in the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Pair He Saw Pass. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Pair He Saw Pass O sad man, now a long dead man, To whom it was so real, I picture, as ’twere yesterday, How you would tell the tale! Just wived were you, you sad dead man, And ‘settling down’, you’d […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Faithful Swallow. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Faithful Swallow When summer shone Its sweetest on An August day, ‘Here evermore,’ I said, ‘I’ll stay; Not go away To another shore As fickle they!’ December came: ’Twas not the same! I did not know Fidelity Would serve me so. […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. An Inquiry. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) An Inquiry A Phantasy Circumdederunt me dolores mortis. – PS. XVIII I said to It: ‘We grasp not what you meant, (Dwelling down here, so narrowly pinched and pent) By crowning Death the King of the Firmament: – The query I […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. The Birks of Aberfeldy. Роберт Бернс. Берёзы Эберфельди
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) The Birks of Aberfeldy Bonnie lassie, will ye go, Will ye go, will ye go, Bonnie lassie, will ye go To the Birks of Aberfeldy? Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o’er the crystal streamlet plays, Come let us spend the lightsome […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Ca’ the Yowes. Роберт Бернс. Пастух («Гнал овец пастушок…»)
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Ca’ the Yowes Ca’ the yowes to the knowes, Ca’ them where the heather grows, Ca’ them where the burnie rows, My bonnie dearie. Hark! the mavis’ evening sang Sounding Clouden’s woods amang; Then a-faulding let us gang, My bonnie dearie. We’ll […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Acknowledgment. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Acknowledgment I. O Age that half believ’st thou half believ’st, Half doubt’st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half perceiving that thou half perceiv’st, Stand’st at thy temple door, heart in, head out! Lo! while thy heart’s within, helping the choir, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Thou and I. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Thou and I So one in heart and thought, I trow, That thou might’st press the strings and I might draw the bow And both would meet in music sweet, Thou and I, I trow. Sidney Lanier’s other poems: From the Flats Ode to […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Wedding. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Wedding O marriage-bells, your clamor tells Two weddings in one breath. SHE marries whom her love compels: — And I wed Goodman Death! My brain is blank, my tears are red; Listen, O God: — ”I will,” he said: – And I […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Symphony. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Symphony ”O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart — ’tis tired of head: We’re all for love,” the violins said. ”Of what avail the rigorous tale Of bill for coin and box for bale? Grant thee, O […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Raven Days. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Raven Days Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken, And but the ghosts of homes to us remain, And ghastly eyes and hollow sighs give token From friend to friend of an unspoken pain. O Raven days, dark […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Winter Violets. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Winter Violets Here are sad flowers, with wintry weeping wet, Dews of the dark that drench the violet. Thus over Her, whom death yet more endears, Nature and Man together blend their tears. Alfred Austin’s other poems: Aspromonte Nocturnal Vigils Covet Who Will The […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Hard Times in Elfland. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Hard Times in Elfland A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and Harry the four-year-old, Big Charley, Nimblewits, and I, Blithe as the wind was bitter, drew More frontward […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Crystal. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Crystal At midnight, death’s and truth’s unlocking time, When far within the spirit’s hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the course of things – A bulk of silence in a mask of sound, – When darkness clears our vision that by […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Bee. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Bee What time I paced, at pleasant morn, A deep and dewy wood, I heard a mellow hunting-horn Make dim report of Dian’s lustihood Far down a heavenly hollow. Mine ear, though fain, had pain to follow: `Tara!’ it twanged, `tara-tara!’ it […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Tampa Robins. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Tampa Robins The robin laughed in the orange-tree: ”Ho, windy North, a fig for thee: While breasts are red and wings are bold And green trees wave us globes of gold, Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me — Sunlight, song, and […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Struggle. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Struggle My soul is like the oar that momently Dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave, Then glitters out again and sweeps the sea: Each second I’m new-born from some new grave. Sidney Lanier’s other poems: From the Flats Ode to the […]