English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Street Cries. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Street Cries Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out along the street Their needs, as wares; one THUS, one SO: Till all the ways are full of sound: — […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Spring Greeting. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Spring Greeting From the German of Herder. All faintly through my soul to-day, As from a bell that far away Is tinkled by some frolic fay, Floateth a lovely chiming. Thou magic bell, to many a fell And many a […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Souls and Rain-Drops. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Souls and Rain-Drops Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea, Then vanish, and die utterly. One would not know that rain-drops fell If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell. So souls come down and wrinkle life And vanish in the flesh-sea strife. One […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. On Huntingdon’s “Miranda”. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) On Huntingdon’s “Miranda” The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet, And laid him kneeling at thy feet. But, — guerdon rich for favor rare! The wind hath all thy holy hair To kiss and to sing through and to flare Like torch-flames […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Nirvana. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Nirvana Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies, Through seas of solitudes and vacancies, And through my Self, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana. Oh long ago the billow-flow of sense, Aroused by passion’s windy vehemence, Upbore […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Twilight Song. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Twilight Song Why, rapturous bird, though shades of night Muffle the leaves and swathe the lawn, Singest thou still with all thy might, As though ’twere noon, as though ’twere dawn? Silence darkens on vale and hill, But thou, unseen, art singing still. […]
English Poetry. William Blake. Songs of Innocence. The Little Boy Lost. Уильям Блейк. Песни невинности. Маленький мальчик, потерявшийся
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) Songs of Innocence. The Little Boy Lost ‘Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.’ The night was dark, no father was there; The child was […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Nilsson. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Nilsson A rose of perfect red, embossed With silver sheens of crystal frost, Yet warm, nor life nor fragrance lost. High passion throbbing in a sphere That Art hath wrought of diamond clear, — A great heart beating in a tear. […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Night and Day. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Night and Day The innocent, sweet Day is dead. Dark Night hath slain her in her bed. O, Moors are as fierce to kill as to wed! — Put out the light, said he. A sweeter light than ever rayed From star of […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Martha Washington. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Martha Washington Written for the ”Martha Washington Court Journal”. Down cold snow-stretches of our bitter time, When windy shams and the rain-mocking sleet Of Trade have cased us in such icy rime That hearts are scarcely hot enough to beat, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Ireland. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Ireland Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880. Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland, Charmer of the sun and sea, Bright beguiler of old anguish, How could Famine frown on thee? As our Gulf-Stream, drawn to thee-ward, Turns him from […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Corn. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Corn To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green as dawn-stars melt in blue. The leaves that wave against my cheek caress Like women’s hands; the embracing boughs express A subtlety […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Control. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Control O Hunger, Hunger, I will harness thee And make thee harrow all my spirit’s glebe. Of old the blind bard Herve sang so sweet He made a wolf to plow his land. Sidney Lanier’s other poems: From the Flats Ode to the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Florida Sunday. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Florida Sunday From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, They shrive to priestly pines with many a sigh, Breathe salutary balms through lank-lock’d hair Of sick men’s heads, and soon […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Birthday Song. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Birthday Song To S. G. For ever wave, for ever float and shine Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine Wherein I dreamed that time was like a vine, A creeping rose, that clomb a height of dread Out of […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Ballad of the Trees and the Master. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Ballad of the Trees and the Master Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar Is in the Land. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar Is in the Land I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And he lived pretty much by gittin’ of loans, And his mules was nuthin’ […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. To Ellen Terry. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) To Ellen Terry Nay, bring forth none but daughters: daughters young, The doubles of yourself; with face as fair, Bearing as candid, gait as debonair, And voice as deeply, musically strung: That the less fortunate age, from this age sprung, In those transmitted gleams […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Church an’ Happy Zunday. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Church an’ Happy Zunday Ah! ev’ry day mid bring a while O’ eäse vrom all woone’s ceäre an’ tweil, The welcome evenèn, when ’tis sweet Vor tired friends wi’ weary veet, But litsome hearts o’ love, to meet; An’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Uncle out o’ Debt an’ out o’ Danger. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Uncle out o’ Debt an’ out o’ Danger Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead, The leäzes an’ the bits o’ mead, Besides the orcha’d in his prime, An’ copse-wood vor the winter time. His wold black meäre, that draw’d his […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. A Ghost. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. A Ghost Eclogue. Jem an’ Dick. JEM. This is a darkish evenèn; b’ye a-feärd O’ zights? Theäse leäne’s a-haunted, I’ve a heärd. DICK. No, I be’nt much a-feär’d. If vo’k don’t strive To over-reach me while […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Father Come Hwome. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Father Come Hwome Eclogue. John, Wife an’ Child. CHILD. O mother, mother! be the teäties done? Here’s father now a-comèn down the track. Hes got his nitch o’ wood upon his back, An’ such a speäker in en! […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Meäry-Ann’s Child. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Meäry-Ann’s Child Meary-Ann wer alwone wi’ her beäby in earms, In her house wi’ the trees over head, Vor her husban’ wer out in the night an’ the storms, In his business a-tweilèn vor bread; An’ she, as the wind in […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Lullaby. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Lullaby The rook’s nest do rock on the tree-top Where vew foes can stand; The martin’s is high, an’ is deep In the steep cliff o’ zand. But thou, love, a-sleepèn where vootsteps Mid come to thy bed, Hast father an’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Woak wer Good Enough Woonce. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Woak wer Good Enough Woonce Ees: now mahogany’s the goo. An’ good wold English woak won’t do. I wish vo’k always mid avvword Hot meals upon a woakèn bwoard. As good as thik that took my cup An’ trencher all my […]
English Poetry. James Beattie. Verses occasioned by the Death of the Revd. Mr. Charles Churchill. Джеймс Битти.
James Beattie (Джеймс Битти) Verses occasioned by the Death of the Revd. Mr. Charles Churchill CHURCHILL begone! with thee may discord’s fire, That hatch’d thy salamander-fame, expire! Fame, dirty idol of the brainless crowd, What half-made mooncalf can mistake for good? Since shar’d by knaves of high and […]
English Poetry. James Beattie. An Eclogue. In the Manner of Mr. Gay. Джеймс Битти.
James Beattie (Джеймс Битти) An Eclogue. In the Manner of Mr. Gay THOMAS. MARTHA. All by the side of a clear winter-fire, A swain and nymph, whom mutual flames inspire, Alternate sung: Ye Muses, all and some, Tho’ long the journey, from Parnassus come; Be it your […]
English Poetry. James Beattie. On reading the Declaration of War in 1756. Джеймс Битти.
James Beattie (Джеймс Битти) On reading the Declaration of War in 1756 While Peace uprear’d aloft her graceful head, And o’er the world her balmy blessings shed: While laurel’d Science flourish’d in her reign: While undisturb’d the merchant plough’d the main; Wide o’er the trackless ocean ply’d the […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Ave Maria. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Ave Maria In the ages of Faith, before the day When men were too proud to weep or pray, There stood in a red-roofed Breton town Snugly nestled ‘twixt sea and down, A chapel for simple souls to meet, Nightly, and sing with voices […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. To Charlotte Cushman. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) To Charlotte Cushman Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam Into the slumb’rous tissue of some stream, Till his bright self o’er his bright copy seem Fulfillment dropping on a come-true dream; So in this night of art thy soul doth […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. To Beethoven. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) To Beethoven In o’er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music’s bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect rose of tone. O Psalmist of the weak, the strong, O Troubadour of love and strife, Co-Litanist of right and […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. To Baynard Taylor. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) To Baynard Taylor To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O’erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, And hear the beating of the hearts of trees, And think the thoughts that lilies speak in white By greenwood […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Tournament. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Tournament Joust First. I. Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies, And the knights still hurried amain To the tournament under the ladies’ eyes, Where the jousters were Heart and Brain. II. Flourished the trumpets: entered […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Stirrup-Cup. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Stirrup-Cup Death, thou’rt a cordial old and rare: Look how compounded, with what care! Time got his wrinkles reaping thee Sweet herbs from all antiquity. David to thy distillage went, Keats, and Gotama excellent, Omar Khayyam, and Chaucer bright, And Shakespeare […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Revenge of Hamish. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Revenge of Hamish It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay; And all of a sudden the sinister smell of a man, Awaft on a wind-shift, wavered and ran Down the hill-side and sifted along through the bracken […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Power of Prayer. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Power of Prayer or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, HE made dese black-jack roots to twis’ into a seat. Umph, dar! De Lord have mussy on dis blin’ […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Palm and the Pine. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Palm and the Pine From the German of Heine. In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone, Upon a wintry height; It sleeps: around it snows have thrown A covering of white. It dreams forever of a Palm That, far i’ […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Jacquerie. A Fragment. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Jacquerie. A Fragment Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, And flamed, one brilliant instant, on the world, Then back into the historic moat was hurled And Night was […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Harlequin of Dreams. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Harlequin of Dreams Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of Dreams, dost leap Upon my spirit’s stage. Then Sight and Sound, Then Space and Time, then Language, Mete and Bound, […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Dream Of England. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Dream Of England I had a dream of England. Wild and weird, The billows ravened round her, and the wrack, Darkening and dwindling, blotted out the track, Then flashed on her a bolt that scorched and seared. She, writhing in her ruin, rolled, […]