English Poetry. Amy Lowell. New York at Night. Эми Лоуэлл.
Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) New York at Night A near horizon whose sharp jags Cut brutally into a sky Of leaden heaviness, and crags Of houses lift their masonry Ugly and foul, and chimneys lie And snort, outlined against the gray Of lowhung cloud. I hear the […]
English Poetry. Amy Lowell. A Little Song. Эми Лоуэлл.
Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) A Little Song When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night Starts another year of candle light. O Pausing Sun and Lingering Moon! Grant me, I beg of you, this boon. […]
English Poetry. Amy Lowell. Irony. Эми Лоуэлл.
Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) Irony An arid daylight shines along the beach Dried to a grey monotony of tone, And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon The sun-baked pebbles, far beyond their reach Sparkles a wet, reviving sea. Here bleach The skeletons of fishes, every bone Polished and […]
English Poetry. Amy Lowell. Sea Shell. Эми Лоуэлл.
Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) Sea Shell Sea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing me a song, O Please! A song of ships, and sailor men, And parrots, and tropical trees, Of islands lost in the Spanish Main Which no man ever may find again, Of fishes and corals under […]
English Poetry. Samuel Johnson. On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic. Сэмюэл Джонсон.
Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic CONDEMN’D to Hope’s delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See […]
English Poetry. Amy Lowell. A Fairy Tale. Эми Лоуэлл.
Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) A Fairy Tale On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before our eyes We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone Uprear itself, the distant ceiling hung With pendent stalactites like frozen […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Winter Rain. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Winter Rain Falling upon the frozen world last night I heard the slow beat of the winter rain— Poor foolish drops, down-dripping all in vain; The ice-bound Earth but mocked their puny might; Far better had the fixedness of white And uncomplaining snows—which […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. At Bay. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) At Bay Wife Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast. Tell me there are no memories of your past That mar this love of ours, so great, so vast. Husband Some truths are cheapened when too oft averred. Does […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I Am. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) I Am I know not whence I came, I know not whither I go; But the fact stands clear that I am here In this world of pleasure and woe. And out of the mist and murk Another truth shines plain– It is […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Leaf. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Leaf Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve, That you were married, or soon to be. I have not thought of you, I believe, Since last we parted. Let me see: Five long Summers have passed since then – Each has been […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Refuted. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Refuted ‘Anticipation is sweeter than realisation.’ It may be, yet I have not found it so. In those first golden dreams of future fame I did not find such happiness as came When toil was crowned with triumph. Now I know […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Daft. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Daft In the warm yellow smile of the morning, She stands at the lattice pane, And watches the strong young binders Stride down to the fields of grain. And she counts them over and over As they pass her cottage […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Leudeman’s-on-the-River. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Leudeman’s-on-the-River Toward even when the day leans down, To kiss the upturned face of night, Out just beyond the loud-voiced town I know a spot of calm delight. Like crimson arrows from a quiver The red rays […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Presumption. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Presumption Whenever I am prone to doubt or wonder - I check myself, and say, ’That mighty One Who made the solar system cannot blunder - And for the best all things are being done.’ Who set the stars on their eternal […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Idler’s Song. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Idler’s Song I sit in the twilight dim At the close of an idle day, And I list to the soft sweet hymn, That rises far away, And dies on the evening air. Oh, all day long, They […]
English Poetry. Samuel Johnson. Song. Сэмюэл Джонсон.
Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Song Not the soft sighs of vernal gales, The fragrance of the flowery vales, The murmurs of the crystal rill, The vocal grove, the verdant hill; Not all their charms, though all unite, Can touch my bosom with delight. Not all the gems […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Foes. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Foes Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe. I saw a prize, ”Run,” cried my friend; ”’T […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Guerdon. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Guerdon Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year I saw a tear. Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow So soon a sorrow. Just then the sunlight fell with sudden flame: A tear became A wondrous diamond sparkling in […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Perished. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Perished I called to the summer sun, “Come over the hills to-day! Unlock the rivers, and tell them to run, And kiss the snow-drifts and melt them away.” And the sun came over – a tardy lover – And […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Introductory Verses. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Introductory Verses Oh, you who read some song that I have sung – What know you of the soul from whence it sprung? Dost dream the poet ever speaks aloud His secret thought unto the listening crowd? Go […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Music in the Flat. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Music in the Flat When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat; I had a taste for singing and playing and all that. And Tom, who loved to hear me, said he hoped I would not stop All […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Beppo. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Beppo Why are thou sad, my Beppo? But last eve, Here at my feet, thy dear head on my breast, I heard thee say thy heart would no more grieve Or feel the olden ennui and unrest. What troubles thee? Am […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Love’s Supremacy. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Love’s Supremacy As yon great Sun in his supreme condition Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my love absorb each vain ambition Each outside purpose which my life has known. Stars cannot shine […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Recompense. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Recompense Straight through my heart this fact to-day, By Truth’s own hand is driven: God never takes one thing away, But something else is given. I did not know in earlier years, This law of love and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Realisation. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Realisation Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of chiselled lines of grace – No farther than her humble grate, And wondered how she bore her […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Fleeing Away. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Fleeing Away My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar, Higher and higher on soul-lent wings; But ever and often and more and more They are dragged down earthward by little things, By little troubles and little […]
English Poetry. Samuel Johnson. From the Medea of Euripides. Сэмюэл Джонсон.
Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) From the Medea of Euripides The rites derived from ancient days With thoughtless reverence we praise, The rites that taught us to combine The joys of music and of wine, And bid the feast, and song and bowl O’erfill the saturated soul: But ne’er […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Resolve. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Resolve Build on resolve, and not upon regret, The structure of thy future. Do not grope Among the shadows of old sins, but let Thine own soul’s light shine on the path of hope And dissipate the darkness. Waste no tears […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Waltz-Quadrille. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Waltz-Quadrille The band was playing a waltz-quadrille, I felt as light as a wind-blown feather, As we floated away, at the caller’s will, Through the intricate, mazy dance together. Like mimic armies our lines were meeting, Slowly advancing, and then retreating, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Waif. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Waif My soul is like a poor caged bird to-night, Beating its wings against the prison bars, Longing to reach the outer world of light, And, all untrammelled, soar among the stars. Wild, mighty thoughts struggle within my soul For utterance. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Philosophy. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Philosophy At morn the wise man walked abroad, Proud with the learning of great fools. He laughed and said, ‘There is no God – ‘Tis force creates, ‘tis reason rules.’ Meek with the wisdom of great faith, At night […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Fading (She sits beside the window. All who pass). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Fading (She sits beside the window. All who pass) She sits beside the window. All who pass Turn once again to gaze on her sweet face. She is so fair; but soon, too soon, alas, To lie down in her last resting-place. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Smoke. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Smoke Last summer, lazing by the sea, I met a most entrancing creature, Her black eyes quite bewildered me— She had a Spanish cast of feature. She often smoked a cigarette, And did it in the cutest […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Marine Etching. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Marine Etching A yacht from its harbor ropes pulled free, And leaped like a steed o’er the race track blue, Then up behind her the dust of the sea, A gray fog, drifted, and hid her from view. Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s other […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Completion. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Completion When I shall meet God’s generous dispensers Of all the riches in the heavenly store, Those lesser gods, who act as Recompensers For loneliness and loss upon this shore, Methinks abashed, and somewhat hesitating, My soul its wish […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Contrasts. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Contrasts I see the tall church steeples, They reach so far, so far, But the eyes of my heart see the world’s great mart, Where the starving people are. I hear the church bells ringing Their chimes on […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Not Quite the Same. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Not Quite the Same Not quite the same the springtime seems to me, Since that sad season when in separate ways Our paths diverged. There are no more such days As dawned for us in that last time when we Dwelt in […]
English Poetry. Samuel Johnson. Drury-Lane Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick. Сэмюэл Джонсон.
Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Drury-Lane Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick When Learning’s triumph o’er her barb’rous foes First rear’d the stage, immortal Shakespear rose; Each change of many-colour’d life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin’d new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil’d […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ad Finem. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Ad Finem On the white throat of the useless passion That scorched my soul with its burning breath, I clutched my fingers in murderous fashion, And gathered them close in a grip of death; For why should I fan, or feed with fuel, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Fading (All in the beautiful Autumn weather). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Fading (All in the beautiful Autumn weather) All in the beautiful Autumn weather One thought lingers with me and stays; Death and winter are coming together, Though both are veiled by the amber haze I look on the forest of royal […]