English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. At the Long Sault. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) At the Long Sault A prisoner under the stars I lie, With no friend near; To-morrow they lead me forth to die, The stake is ready, the torments set, They will pay in full their deadly debt; […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. At Nightfall. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) At Nightfall The dark is coming o’er the world, my playmate, And the fields where poplars stand are very still, All our groves of green delight have been invaded, There are voices quite unknown upon the hill; The wind […]
English Poetry. John Clare. Death. Джон Клэр.
John Clare (Джон Клэр) Death Why should man’s high aspiring mind Burn in him with so proud a breath, When all his haughty views can find In this world yields to death? The fair, the brave, the vain, the wise, The rich, the poor, the great, and small, […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. An April Night. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) An April Night The moon comes up o’er the deeps of the woods, And the long, low dingles that hide in the hills, Where the ancient beeches are moist with buds Over the pools and the whimpering rills; And […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Day in the Open. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Day in the Open Ho, a day Whereon we may up and away, With a fetterless wind that is out on the downs, And there piping a call to the fallow and shore, Where the sea evermore Surgeth over the gray […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Mother. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Mother Here I lean over you, small son, sleeping Warm in my arms, And I con to my heart all your dew-fresh charms, As you lie close, close in my hungry hold… Your hair like a miser’s dream of gold, And […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Forever. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Forever I With you I shall ever be; Over land and sea My thoughts will companion you; With yours shall my laughter chime, And my step keep time In the dusk and dew With yours in blithesome rhyme; In all of […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Request. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Request When I am dead I would that ye make my bed On that low-lying, windy waste by the sea, Where the silvery grasses rustle and lisp; There, where the crisp Foam-flakes shall fly over me, And murmurs creep From the […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment. Роберт Бернс. Лорду Галлоуэю, пригрозившему испортить жизнь Роберту Бернсу за его эпиграммы
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Spare me thy vengeance, Galloway, In quiet let me live: I ask no kindness at thy hand, For thou hast none to give. 1793 Перевод на русский язык Лорду Галлоуэю, пригрозившему испортить жизнь Роберту Бернсу за […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway. Роберт Бернс. В тот день, когда я увидел прекрасную усадьбу лорда Галлоуэя
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway What dost thou in that mansion fair? Flit, Galloway, and find Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, The picture of thy mind! 1793 Перевод на русский язык В тот день, когда я увидел прекрасную усадьбу лорда Галлоуэя […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat. Роберт Бернс. В тот день, когда лэрд Кардонесс показал нам свою усадьбу
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat We grant they’re thine, those beauties all, So lovely in our eye; Keep them, thou eunuch, Cardoness, For others to enjoy! 1794 Перевод на русский язык В тот день, когда лэрд Кардонесс показал нам свою усадьбу Ты […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Spring Star. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Spring Star I. Over the lamp-lit street, Trodden by hurrying feet, Where mostly pulse and beat Life’s throbbing veins, See where the April star, Blue-bright as sapphires are, Hangs in deep heavens far, Waxes and wanes. Strangely alive it seems, Darting keen, […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. A June Night. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) A June Night Ten o’clock: the broken moon Hangs not yet a half hour high, Yellow as a shield of brass, In the dewy air of June, Poised between the vaulted sky And the ocean’s liquid glass. Earth lies in the shadow still; […]
English Poetry. John Clare. Autumn. Джон Клэр.
John Clare (Джон Клэр) Autumn The thistledown’s flying, though the winds are all still, On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill, The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; Through stones past the counting it bubbles red-hot. The ground parched and cracked […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. The World’s Justice. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) The World’s Justice If the sudden tidings came That on some far, foreign coast, Buried ages long from fame, Had been found a remnant lost Of that hoary race who dwelt By the golden Nile divine, Spake the Pharaoh’s tongue and knelt At the […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. In Exile. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) In Exile “Since that day till now our life is one unbroken paradise. We live a true brotherly life. Every evening after supper we take a seat under the mighty oak and sing our songs.” — Extract from a letter of a Russian […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. The South. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) The South Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies Behold the Spirit of the musky South, A creole with still-burning, languid eyes, Voluptuous limbs and incense-breathing mouth: Swathed in spun gauze is she, From fibres of her own anana tree. Within these sumptuous woods […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Chopin. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Chopin I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright eyebeams meet, Gay laughter echoes from the vaulted roof. Warm perfumes rise; the soft unflickering glow Of branching lights sets off the […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Venus of the Louvre. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Venus of the Louvre Down the long hall she glistens like a star, The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone, Yet none the less immortal, breathing on. Time’s brutal hand hath maimed but could not mar. When first […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. To R.W.E.. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) To R.W.E. As when a father dies, his children draw About the empty hearth, their loss to cheat With uttered praise & love, & oft repeat His all-familiar words with whispered awe. The honored habit of his daily law, […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. The Supreme Sacrifice. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) The Supreme Sacrifice Well-nigh two thousand years hath Israel Suffered the scorn of man for love of God; Endured the outlaw’s ban, the yoke, the rod, With perfect patience. Empires rose and fell, Around him Nebo was adored and […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. The Cranes of Ibicus. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) The Cranes of Ibicus Here was a man who watched the river flow Past the huge town, one gray November day. Round him in narrow high-piled streets at play The boys made merry as they saw him go, Murmuring half-loud, with eyes […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Marriage Bells. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Marriage Bells Music and silver chimes and sunlit air, Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower; Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere. She, rapt from all in this unearthly hour, With cloudlike, cast-back veil and faint-flushed cheek, In bridal […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Life and Art. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. […]
English Poetry. John Clare. A World for Love. Джон Клэр.
John Clare (Джон Клэр) A World for Love Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care; Oh, this world is but a rude world, and hurts a thing so fair; Was there a nook in which the world had never been to […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Influence. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Influence The fervent, pale-faced Mother ere she sleep, Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted square, The beautiful bare trees, the blue night-air, The revelation of the star-strewn deep, World above world, and heaven over heaven. Between the tree-tops and […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport Here, where the noises of the busy town, The ocean’s plunge and roar can enter not, We stand and gaze around with tearful awe, And muse upon the consecrated spot. No signs of life are […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. From One Augur to Another. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) From One Augur to Another So, Calchas, on the sacred Palatine, You thought of Mopsus, and o’er wastes of sea A flower brought your message. I divine (Through my deep art) the kindly mockery That played about your lips […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. 1492. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) 1492 Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Symphonic Studies (After Schumann). Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Symphonic Studies (After Schumann) Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in harmony With the wild, restless tone of air and sky. Shall we not call im Prospero who held In […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Destiny. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Destiny 1856 Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass, Joy-thundering cannon, blent with chiming bells, And martial strains, the full-voiced pæan swells. The air is starred with flags, the chanted mass Throngs all the churches, yet the broad streets swarm With glad-eyed groups […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. City Visions. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) City Visions I As the blind Milton’s memory of light, The deaf Beethoven’s phantasy of tone, Wroght joys for them surpassing all things known In our restricted sphere of sound and sight,– So while the glaring streets of brick and stone Vix with […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. The Taming of the Falcon. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) The Taming of the Falcon The bird sits spelled upon the lithe brown wrist Of yonder turbaned fowler, who had lamed No feather limb, but the winged spirit tamed With his compelling eye. He need not trust The silken […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. The New Ezekiel. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) The New Ezekiel What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried By twenty scorching centuries of wrong? Is this the House of Israel, whose pride Is as a tale that’s told, an ancient song? Are these ignoble […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Sympathy. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Sympathy Therefore I dare reveal my private woe, The secret blots of my imperfect heart, Nor strive to shrink or swell mine own desert, Nor beautify nor hide. For this I know, That even as I am, thou also […]
English Poetry. John Clare. The Peasant Poet. Джон Клэр.
John Clare (Джон Клэр) The Peasant Poet He loved the brook’s soft sound, The swallow swimming by. He loved the daisy-covered ground, The cloud-bedappled sky. To him the dismal storm appeared The very voice of God; And when the evening rack was reared Stood Moses with his rod. […]
English Poetry. William Blake. Songs of Innocence. The Echoing Green. Уильям Блейк. Песни невинности. Зеленое ау
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) Songs of Innocence. The Echoing Green The sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the spring; The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around To the bell’s cheerful sound, While our sports shall […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. St. Michael’s Chapel. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) St. Michael’s Chapel When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain Roars round about me as I walk the street, The myriad noise of Traffic, and the beat Of Toil’s incessant hammer, the fierce strain Of struggle hand to […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Echoes. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Echoes Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, The freshness of the elder lays, the might Of manly, modern passion shall alight Upon my Muse’s lips, nor may I cope (Who veiled and screened by womanhood must grope) […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Critic and Poet. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Critic and Poet An Apologue. (“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned; this man is neither simple, sensuous, nor impassioned; therefore he is not a poet.”) No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred […]