English Poetry. William Cowper. The Lily And The Rose. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) The Lily And The Rose The nymph must lose her female friend If more admired than she, - But where will fierce contention end If flowers can disagree? Within the garden’s peaceful scene Appeared two lovely foes, Aspiring to the rank of queen, […]
English Poetry. Andrew Barton Paterson. The Ballad of M. T. Nutt and His Dog. Эндрю Бартон Патерсон.
Andrew Barton Paterson (Эндрю Бартон Патерсон) The Ballad of M. T. Nutt and His Dog The Honourable M. T. Nutt About the bush did jog. Till, passing by a settler’s hut, He stopped and bought a dog. Then started homewards full of hope, […]
English Poetry. Andrew Barton Paterson. The Angel’s Kiss. Эндрю Бартон Патерсон.
Andrew Barton Paterson (Эндрю Бартон Патерсон) The Angel’s Kiss An angel stood beside the bed Where lay the living and the dead. He gave the mother — her who died — A kiss that Christ the Crucified Had sent to greet the weary […]
English Poetry. Andrew Barton Paterson. Australian Scenery. Эндрю Бартон Патерсон.
Andrew Barton Paterson (Эндрю Бартон Патерсон) Australian Scenery The Mountains A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant gum trees grow And the wind replies, in the river oaks, to the song of the stream below. A land […]
English Poetry. Andrew Barton Paterson. He Giveth His Beloved Sleep. Эндрю Бартон Патерсон.
Andrew Barton Paterson (Эндрю Бартон Патерсон) He Giveth His Beloved Sleep The long day passes with its load of sorrow: In slumber deep I lay me down to rest until tomorrow – Thank God for sleep. Thank God for all respite from weary toiling, From cares that creep […]
English Poetry. Andrew Barton Paterson. Any Other Time. Эндрю Бартон Патерсон.
Andrew Barton Paterson (Эндрю Бартон Патерсон) Any Other Time ALL of us play our very best game— Any other time. Golf or billiards, it’s all the same— Any other time. Lose a match and you always say, “Just my luck! I was ‘off’ to-day! I could have beaten […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries. Роберт Бернс. Эпитафия Джону Бушби, банкиру и землевладельцу из Дамфриза
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries Here lies John Bushby, honest man! Cheat him, Devil, if you can. 1794 Перевод на русский язык Эпитафия Джону Бушби, банкиру и землевладельцу из Дамфриза Джон Бу́шби, честный человек, Здесь упокоился навек. Такой и Адского Владыку […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Poverty. Роберт Бернс. О бедности и политике
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Poverty In politics if thou wouldst mix, And mean thy fortunes be; Bear this in mind, – be deaf and blind, Let great folks hear and see. 1793 Перевод на русский язык О бедности и политике Не лезь в политику, дружище! Она – […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington’s Very Looks. Роберт Бернс. Эпиграмма по поводу мнения о том, что сами глаза преподобного Бэ́бингтона источают ложь
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington’s Very Looks That there is falsehood in his looks I must and will deny; They say their master is a knave – And sure they do not lie. 1794 Перевод на русский язык […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise. Роберт Бернс. Экспромт свежеиспечённого акцизного
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Seaching auld wives’ barrels, – Ochone the day! That clarty barm should stain my laurels; But – what’ll ye say? These movin’ things, ca’d wives and weans, Wad move the very hearts o’ stanes! 1788 Перевод […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Poet. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Poet There was strength in him and the weak won freely from it, There was an infinite pity, and hard hearts grew soft thereby, There was truth so unshrinking and starry-shining, Men read clear by its light and learned to scorn […]
English Poetry. William Cowper. The Castaway. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) The Castaway Obscurest night involv’d the sky, Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d, When such a destin’d wretch as I, Wash’d headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Gulls. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Gulls I Soft is the sky in the mist-kirtled east, Light is abroad on the sea, All of the heaven with silver is fleeced, Holding the sunrise in fee. Lo! with a flash and uplifting of wings Down where the […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Rain on the Hill. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Rain on the Hill Now on the hill The fitful wind is so still That never a wimpling mist uplifts, Nor a trembling leaf drop-laden stirs; From the ancient firs Aroma of balsam drifts, And the silent places are filled With elusive […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Memory Pictures. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Memory Pictures I A wide-spring meadow in a rosy dawn Bedropt with virgin buds; an orient sky Fleeced with a dappled cloud but half withdrawn; A mad wind blowing by, O’er slopes of rippling grass and glens apart; A brackened path […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. I Feel (Verse Libre). Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) I Feel (Verse Libre) I feel Very much Like taking Its unholy perpetrators By the hair Of their heads (If they have any hair) And dragging them around A few times, And then cutting them Into small, irregular pieces And burying them […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Winter Day. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Winter Day I The air is silent save where stirs A bugling breeze among the firs; The virgin world in white array Waits for the bridegroom kiss of day; All heaven blooms rarely in the east Where skies are silvery […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Summer Day. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Summer Day I The dawn laughs out on orient hills And dances with the diamond rills; The ambrosial wind but faintly stirs The silken, beaded gossamers; In the wide valleys, lone and fair, Lyrics are piped from limpid air, And, […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. You. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) You Only a long, low-lying lane That follows to the misty sea, Across a bare and russet plain Where wild winds whistle vagrantly; I know that many a fairer path With lure of song and bloom may woo, But oh ! […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. While the Fates Sleep. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) While the Fates Sleep Come, let us to the sunways of the west, Hasten, while crystal dews the rose-cups fill, Let us dream dreams again in our blithe quest O’er whispering wold and hill. Castles of air yon wimpling valleys keep […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Two Loves. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Two Loves One said; ”Lo, I would walk hand-clasped with thee Adown the ways of joy and sunlit slopes Of earthly song in happiest vagrancy To pluck the blossom of a thousand hopes. Let us together drain the wide world’s […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Twilight. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Twilight From vales of dawn hath Day pursued the Night Who mocking fled, swift-sandalled, to the west, Nor ever lingered in her wayward flight With dusk-eyed glance to recompense his quest, But over crocus hills and meadows gray Sped fleetly on […]
English Poetry. William Cowper. A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love ‘Twas my purpose, on a day, To embark, and sail away. As I climbed the vessel’s side, Love was sporting in the tide; ‘Come,’ he said, ‘ascend—make haste, Launch into the boundless waste.’ Many […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. To One Hated. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) To One Hated Had it been when I came to the valley where the paths parted asunder, Chance had led my feet to the way of love, not hate, I might have cherished you well, have been to you fond and […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. To My Enemy. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) To My Enemy Let those who will of friendship sing, And to its guerdon grateful be, But I a lyric garland bring To crown thee, O, mine enemy! Thanks, endless thanks, to thee I owe For that my lifelong […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Wind. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Wind O, wind! what saw you in the South, In lilied meadows fair and far? I saw a lover kiss his lass New-won beneath the evening star. O, wind! what saw you in the West Of passing […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Watchman. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Watchman My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought to greet thee as a conqueror comes, Bearing the trophies of his prowess home, But […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Voyagers. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Voyagers We shall launch our shallop on waters blue from some dim primrose shore, We shall sail with the magic of dusk behind and enchanted coasts before, Over oceans that stretch to the sunset land where lost Atlantis lies, And […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Seeker. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Seeker I sought for my happiness over the world, Oh, eager and far was my quest; I sought it on mountain and desert and sea, I asked it of east and of west. I sought it in beautiful cities of […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Rovers. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Rovers Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover, That letters a message for us as for every vagrant rover; Before us the dells are abloom, and a leaping brook calls after, Feeling its kinship with […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Poet’s Thought. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Poet’s Thought It came to him in rainbow dreams, Blent with the wisdom of the sages, Of spirit and of passion born; In words as lucent as the morn He prisoned it, and now it gleams […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Old Man’s Grave. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Old Man’s Grave Make it where the winds may sweep Through the pine boughs soft and deep, And the murmur of the sea Come across the orient lea, And the falling raindrops sing Gently to […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Old Home Calls. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Old Home Calls Come back to me, little dancing feet that roam the wide world o’er, I long for the lilt of your flying steps in my silent rooms once more; Come back to me, little voices gay with laughter […]
English Poetry. William Cowper. The Nightingale and Glow-worm. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) The Nightingale and Glow-worm A Nightingale that all day long Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When looking […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Farewell. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Farewell He rides away with sword and spur, Garbed in his warlike blazonry, With gallant glance and smile for her Upon the dim-lit balcony. Her kiss upon his lips is warm, Upon his breast he wears her rose, From her […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Difference. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Difference When we were together, heart of my heart, on that unforgotten quest, With your tender arm about me thrown and your head upon my breast, There came a grief that was bitter and deep and straitly dwell with me, […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Christmas Night. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Christmas Night Wrapped was the world in slumber deep, By seaward valley and cedarn steep, And bright and blest were the dreams of its sleep; All the hours of that wonderful night-tide through The stars outblossomed […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Song of the Sea-Wind. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Song of the Sea-Wind When the sun sets over the long blue wave I spring from my couch of rest, And I hurtle and boom over leagues of foam That toss in the weltering west, I pipe a hymn to […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Shore Twilight. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Shore Twilight Lo, find we here when the ripe day is o’er A kingdom of enchantment by the shore! Behold the sky with early stars ashine, A jewelled flagon brimmed with purple wine. Like a dumb poet’s […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Realization. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Realization I smiled with skeptic mocking where they told me you were dead, You of the airy laughter and lightly twinkling feet; ”They tell a dream that haunted a chill gray dawn,” I said, ”Death could not touch or claim a […]