English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Dove. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Dove If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn, Shouldst call along the curving sphere, ”Remain, Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me not in scorn!” With soft halloos of heavenly love and pain; – Shouldst thou, O Spring! a-cower in coverts dark, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Strange Jokes. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Strange Jokes Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad Grim squatting on a twilight road. He catcheth all that Circumstance Hath tossed to him. He curseth all who upward glance As lost to him. Once in a whimsey mood he sat And […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Special Pleading. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Special Pleading Time, hurry my Love to me: Haste, haste! Lov’st not good company? Here’s but a heart-break sandy waste ’Twixt Now and Then. Why, killing haste Were best, dear Time, for thee, for thee! Oh, would that I might divine Thy […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Rose-Morals. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Rose-Morals I. — Red. Would that my songs might be What roses make by day and night – Distillments of my clod of misery Into delight. Soul, could’st thou bare thy breast As yon red rose, and dare the day, All […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Resurrection. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Resurrection Sometimes in morning sunlights by the river Where in the early fall long grasses wave, Light winds from over the moorland sink and shiver And sigh as if just blown across a grave. And then I pause and listen to this […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Our Hills. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Our Hills Dear Mother-Earth Of Titan birth, Yon hills are your large breasts, and often I Have climbed to their top-nipples, fain and dry To drink my mother’s-milk so near the sky. O ye hill-stains, Red, for all rains! The blood that […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Opposition. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Opposition Of fret, of dark, of thorn, of chill, Complain no more; for these, O heart, Direct the random of the will As rhymes direct the rage of art. The lute’s fixt fret, that runs athwart The strain and purpose of the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill Fine-tissued as her finger-tips, and white As all her thoughts; in shape like shields of prize, As if before young Violet’s dreaming eyes Still blazed the two great Theban bucklers bright That swayed the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. On a Palmetto. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) On a Palmetto Through all that year-scarred agony of height, Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands His wandy circlet with his bladed bands Dividing every wind, or loud or light, To termless hymns of love and old despite, Yon tall palmetto in […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Ode to the Johns Hopkins University How tall among her sisters, and how fair, – How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, ’mid wrinkled Matres of old lands Our youngest Alma Mater modest stands! In four brief cycles round the punctual sun […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Love’s Trinity. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Love’s Trinity SOUL, heart, and body, we thus singly name, Are not in love divisible and distinct, But each with each inseparably link’d. One is not honour, and the other shame, But burn as closely fused as fuel, heat, and flame. They do […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Nine from Eight. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Nine from Eight I was drivin’ my two-mule waggin, With a lot o’ truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin’ (Which my cotton was ready to bale), And I come to a place on the side o’ the pike Whar a […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Night. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Night Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, East and West, alway. Like the round pearl that Egypt drunk in wine, The sun half sinks i’ the brimming, rosy […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. My Springs. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) My Springs In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know Two springs that with unbroken flow Forever pour their lucent streams Into my soul’s far Lake of Dreams. Not larger than two eyes, they lie Beneath the many-changing sky And […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Marsh Hymns. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Marsh Hymns Between Dawn and Sunrise. Were silver pink, and had a soul, Which soul were shy, which shyness might A visible influence be, and roll Through heaven and earth — ’twere thou, O light! O rhapsody of the wraith of red, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Laus Mariae. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Laus Mariae Across the brook of Time man leaping goes On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise Fixed, memorable, midst broad shallow flows Of neutrals, kill-times, sleeps, indifferencies. So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps: Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Laughter in the Senate. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Laughter in the Senate In the South lies a lonesome, hungry Land; He huddles his rags with a cripple’s hand; He mutters, prone on the barren sand, What time his heart is breaking. He lifts his bare head from the ground; He listens […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. June Dreams, in January. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) June Dreams, in January ”So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ardors and sun-loves and subtle thrills; ”Throb, Beautiful! while the fervent hours exhale As kisses faint-blown from thy finger-tips […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Jones’s Porvate Argyment. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Jones’s Porvate Argyment That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, He had this pint about him: He’d swear with a hundred sighs and groans, That farmers MUST stop gittin’ loans, And git along without ’em: That bankers, warehousemen, and sich Was […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. In the Foam. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) In the Foam Life swelleth in a whitening wave, And dasheth thee and me apart. I sweep out seaward: — be thou brave. And reach the shore, Sweetheart. Beat back the backward-thrusting sea. Thy weak white arm his blows may thwart, Christ buffet […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. In Absence. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) In Absence I. The storm that snapped our fate’s one ship in twain Hath blown my half o’ the wreck from thine apart. O Love! O Love! across the gray-waved main To thee-ward strain my eyes, my arms, my heart. I ask my […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Birthday Present. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Birthday Present ”Say what, to please you, you would have me be.” Then listen, dear! I fain would have you very fair to see, And sweet to hear. `You should have Aphrodite’s form and face, With Dian’s tread; And something of Minerva’s […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. From the Flats. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) From the Flats What heartache — ne’er a hill! Inexorable, vapid, vague and chill The drear sand-levels drain my spirit low. With one poor word they tell me all they know; Whereat their stupid tongues, to tease my pain, Do drawl it o’er again […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Clover. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Clover Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester’s favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one – A grave good-morrow to your Graces, all, Fair tilth and fruitful seasons! Lo, how still! The midmorn empties you […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Barnacles. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Barnacles My soul is sailing through the sea, But the Past is heavy and hindereth me. The Past hath crusted cumbrous shells That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells About my soul. The huge waves wash, the high waves roll, Each barnacle clingeth […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Baby Charley. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Baby Charley He’s fast asleep. See how, O Wife, Night’s finger on the lip of life Bids whist the tongue, so prattle-rife, Of busy Baby Charley. One arm stretched backward round his head, Five little toes from out the bed Just showing, like […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. At First. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) At First To Charlotte Cushman My crippled sense fares bow’d along His uncompanioned way, And wronged by death pays life with wrong And I wake by night and dream by day. And the Morning seems but fatigued Night That hath wept his […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Sunrise Song. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Sunrise Song Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands Pourest thy pilgrim’s tale, discoursing still Thy silver passages of sacred lands, With news of Sepulchre and Dolorous Hill, Canst thou be he that, yester-sunset warm, Purple with Paynim rage and wrack […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Song of the Future. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Song of the Future Sail fast, sail fast, Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams; Sweep lordly o’er the drowned Past, Fly glittering through the sun’s strange beams; Sail fast, sail fast. Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea With […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Song of Eternity in Time. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Song of Eternity in Time Once, at night, in the manor wood My Love and I long silent stood, Amazed that any heavens could Decree to part us, bitterly repining. My Love, in aimless love and grief, Reached forth and drew aside a […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L.. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. By Sidney and Clifford Lanier. O wish that’s vainer than the plash Of these wave-whimsies on the shore: ”Give us a pearl to fill the gash – God, let our dead friend live once more!” […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Florida Ghost. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Florida Ghost Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines — a surf asleep on land – And the great Gulf at play, Past far-off palms that filmed to nought, Or in and out the […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Farewell To Youth. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Farewell To Youth Ere that I say farewell to youth, and take The homely road that leads to life’s decline, Let me be sure again I shall not pine To taste the bliss you bid me to forsake: That Spring’s returning raptures will […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Dedication. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Dedication To Charlotte Cushman As Love will carve dear names upon a tree, Symbol of gravure on his heart to be, So thought I thine with loving text to set In the growth and substance of my canzonet; But, writing […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. «Green Grow the Rashes O…». Роберт Бернс. «Камыш, камыш, о чём шумишь…»
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) «Green Grow the Rashes O…» Green grow the rashes O, Green grow the rashes O; The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, Are spent amang the lasses O! There’s nought but care on ev’ry han’, In ev’ry hour that passes O; What signifies […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Pekingese. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Pekingese For a picture This Pekingese, that makes the sand-grains spin, Is digging little tunnels to Pekin: Dream him emerging in a porcelain cave Where wounded dragons stain a pearly wave. Elinor Wylie’s other poems: The Prinkin’ Leddie Poor Earth Quarrel The […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Village Mystery. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Village Mystery The woman in the pointed hood And cloak blue-gray like a pigeon’s wing, Whose orchard climbs to the balsam-wood, Has done a cruel thing. To her back door-step came a ghost, A girl who had been […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Venetian Interior. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Venetian Interior Allegra, rising from her canopied dreams, Slides both white feet across the slanted beams Which lace the peacock jalousies: behold An idol of fine clay, with feet of gold Elinor Wylie’s other poems: Poor Earth Quarrel Atavism The […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Valentine. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Valentine Too high, too high to pluck My heart shall swing. A fruit no bee shall suck, No wasp shall sting. If on some night of cold It falls to ground In apple-leaves of gold I’ll […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Prinkin’ Leddie. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Prinkin’ Leddie The Hielan’ lassies are a’ for spinnin’, The Lowlan’ lassies for prinkin’ and pinnin’; My daddie w’u’d chide me, an’ so w’u’d my minnie If I s’u’d bring hame sic a prinkin’ leddie. Now haud your […]