English Poetry. Claude McKay. Subway Wind. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Subway Wind Far down, down through the city’s great, gaunt gut, The gray train rushing bears the weary wind; In the packed cars the fans the crowd’s breath cut, Leaving the sick and heavy air behind. And pale-cheeked children […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Russian Cathedral. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Russian Cathedral Bow down my soul in worship very low And in the holy silences be lost. Bow down before the marble man of woe, Bow down before the singing angel host. What jewelled glory fills my spirit’s eye, What golden grandeur moves […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Romance. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Romance To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed, Scented and warm against my beating breast; To whisper soft and quivering your name, And drink the passion burning in your frame; To lie at full length, taut, with cheek to […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Polarity. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Polarity Nay, why reproach each other, be unkind, For there’s no plane on which we two may meet? Let’s both forgive, forget, for both were blind, And life is of a day, and time is fleet. And I […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Poetry. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Poetry Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower, And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee. Bowing my head in deep humility Before the silent thunder of thy power. Sometimes I flee before thy blazing light, As […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Outcast. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Outcast For the dim regions whence my fathers came My spirit, bondaged by the body, longs. Words felt, but never heard, my lips would frame; My soul would sing forgotten jungle songs. I would go back to darkness and […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. On the Road. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) On the Road Roar of the rushing train fearfully rocking, Impatient people jammed in line for food, The rasping noise of cars together knocking, And worried waiters, some in ugly mood, Crowding into the choking pantry hole To […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. On a Primitive Canoe. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) On a Primitive Canoe Here, passing lonely down this quiet lane, Before a mud-splashed window long I pause To gaze and gaze, while through my active brain Still thoughts are stirred to wakefulness; because Long, long ago in a […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. La Paloma in London. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) La Paloma in London About Soho we went before the light; We went, unresting six, craving new fun, New scenes, new raptures, for the fevered night Of rollicking laughter, drink and song, was done. The vault was void, but […]
English Poetry. Andrew Marvell. A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C.. Эндрю Марвелл.
Andrew Marvell (Эндрю Марвелл) A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell’s head, and numbred ev’ry hair, Now in its self (the Glass where all appears) Had seen the period of his golden Years: And thenceforth onely did attend […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Jasmines. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Jasmines Your scent is in the room. Swiftly it overwhelms and conquers me! Jasmines, night jasmines, perfect of perfume, Heavy with dew before the dawn of day! Your face was in the mirror. I could see You smile […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. I Shall Return. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) I Shall Return I shall return again; I shall return To laugh and love and watch with wonder-eyes At golden noon the forest fires burn, Wafting their blue-black smoke to sapphire skies. I shall return to loiter by the […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Homing Swallows. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Homing Swallows Swift swallows sailing from the Spanish main, O rain-birds racing merrily away From hill-tops parched with heat and sultry plain Of wilting plants and fainting flowers, say– When at the noon-hour from the chapel school […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Home Thoughts. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Home Thoughts Oh something just now must be happening there! That suddenly and quiveringly here, Amid the city’s noises, I must think Of mangoes leaning o’er the river’s brink, And dexterous Davie climbing high above, The gold fruits […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Heritage. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Heritage Now the dead past seems vividly alive, And in this shining moment I can trace, Down through the vista of the vanished years, Your faun-like form, your fond elusive face. And suddenly some secret spring’s released, And unawares a riddle is […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. French Leave. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) French Leave No servile little fear shall daunt my will This morning. I have courage steeled to say I will be lazy, conqueringly still, I will not lose the hours in toil this day. The roaring world without, […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Flame-Heart. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Flame-Heart So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years! I have forgot What time the purple apples come to juice, And what month brings the shy forget-me-not. I have forgot the special, startling season Of the pimento’s […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Courage. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Courage O lonely heart so timid of approach, Like the shy tropic flower that shuts its lips To the faint touch of tender finger tips: What is your word? What question would you broach? Your lustrous-warm eyes are […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Commemoration. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Commemoration When first your glory shone upon my face My body kindled to a mighty flame, And burnt you yielding in my hot embrace Until you swooned to love, breathing my name. And wonder came and filled our […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Birds of Prey. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Birds of Prey Their shadow dims the sunshine of our day, As they go lumbering across the sky, Squawking in joy of feeling safe on high, Beating their heavy wings of owlish gray. They scare the singing birds of […]
English Poetry. Andrew Marvell. A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda. Эндрю Марвелл.
Andrew Marvell (Эндрю Марвелл) A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda Dorinda When Death, shall snatch us from these Kids, And shut up our divided Lids, Tell me Thyrsis, prethee do, Whither thou and I must go. Thyrsis To the Elizium: (Dorinda) oh where i’st? Thyrsis A […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Africa. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Africa The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the world was young in pregnant night Thy slaves toiled at thy monumental best. Thou ancient treasure-land, thou modern prize, […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Chris’mas Invitation. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Chris’mas Invitation Come down to-morrow night; an’ mind, Don’t leäve thy fiddle-bag behind; We’ll sheäke a lag, an’ drink a cup O’ eäle, to keep wold Chris’mas up. An’ let thy sister teäke thy eärm, The walk won’t do her […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. The Carter. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. The Carter O, I be a carter, wi’ my whip A-smackèn loud, as by my zide, Up over hill, an’ down the dip, The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. An’ I do haul in all the crops, An’ I do […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. The Settle an’ the Girt Wood Vire. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. The Settle an’ the Girt Wood Vire Ah! naïghbour John, since I an’ you Wer youngsters, ev’ry thing is new. My father’s vires wer all o’ logs O’ cleft-wood, down upon the dogs Below our clavy, high, an’ brode Enough to […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Nanny’s Cow. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Nanny’s Cow Ov all the cows, among the rest War woone that Nanny lik’d the best; An’ after milkèn us’d to stan’ A-veedèn o’ her, vrom her han’, Wi’ grass or haÿ; an’ she know’d Ann, An’ in the evenèn […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. The Zeppelin. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) The Zeppelin Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There is a hurrying of feet, And whirled athwart gloom White fingers of alarm Point at last there Where illumined and […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. No More Now with Jealous Complaining. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) * * * No more now with jealous complaining Shall you be vext; nor I with fears Torture my heart: my heart is secure now, And laughs at follies of former tears. No more now with the endless paining Of idle desires […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. A Child in Nature, as a Child in Years. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) * * * A child in nature, as a child in years, If on past hours she turn remembering eyes, She but beholds sweet joys or gentle tears, Flower hiding flower in her pure memories. So flower–like, so lovely do they […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. In the High Leaves of a Walnut. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) * * * In the high leaves of a walnut, On the very topmost boughs, A boy that climbed the branching bole His cradled limbs would house. On the airy bed that rocked him Long, idle hours he’d lie Alone with […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. Edith Cavell. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) Edith Cavell She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came— The lint in her hand unrolled. They battered the door with their rifle-butts, crashed it in: She faced them gentle and bold. They haled […]
English Poetry. David Herbert Lawrence. Dissolute. Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс.
David Herbert Lawrence (Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс) Dissolute Many years have I still to burn, detained Like a candle flame on this body; but I enshine A darkness within me, a presence which sleeps contained In my flame of living, her soul enfolded in mine. And through these […]
English Poetry. William Blake. Songs of Innocence. The Chimney Sweeper. Уильям Блейк. Песни невинности. Маленький трубочист
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) Songs of Innocence. The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry “weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!’ So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There’s little Tom Dacre, […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. The Fourth of August. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) The Fourth of August NOW in they splendour go before us, Spirit of England, ardent-eyed! Enkindle this dear earth that bore us, In the hour of peril purified. The cares we hugged drop out of vision, Our hearts with deeper thoughts […]
English Poetry. Robert Laurence Binyon. Hunger. Роберт Лоренс Биньон.
Robert Laurence Binyon (Роберт Лоренс Биньон) Hunger I come among the peoples like a shadow. I sit down by each man’s side. None sees me, but they look on one another, And know that I am there. My silence is like the silence of the tide That buries […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. In the Stillness o’ the Night. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. In the Stillness o’ the Night Ov all the housen o’ the pleäce, There ’s woone where I do like to call By day or night the best ov all, To zee my Fanny’s smilèn feäce; An’ there the steätely trees […]
English Poetry. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Resurrection Song. Томас Беддоус.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Томас Беддоус) Resurrection Song Thread the nerves through the right holes; Get out of my bones, you wormy souls. Shut up my stomach, the ribs are full; Muscles be steady and ready to pull. Heart and artery merrily shake, And eyelid go up, for we’re […]
English Poetry. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Song on the Water. Томас Беддоус.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Томас Беддоус) Song on the Water As mad sexton’s bell, tolling For earth’s loveliest daughter Night’s dumbness breaks rolling Ghostily: So our boat breaks the water Witchingly. As her look the dream troubles Of her tearful-eyed lover, So our sails in the bubbles Ghostily […]
English Poetry. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The Rosy Hour. Томас Беддоус.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Томас Беддоус) The Rosy Hour And in that rosy rosy hour, When bird sang out and scented flower, Came words to me from heaven above: “Awake, young heart, awake and love!” Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s other poems: To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty Song from Torrismond Resurrection […]
English Poetry. Claude McKay. Winter in the Country. Клод Маккей.
Claude McKay (Клод Маккей) Winter in the Country Sweet life! how lovely to be here And feel the soft sea-laden breeze Strike my flushed face, the spruce’s fair Free limbs to see, the lesser trees’ Bare hands to touch, the sparrow’s cheep […]