English Poetry. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’. Томас Беддоус.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Томас Беддоус) Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’ Write it in gold – a Spirit of the sun, An Intellect ablaze with heavenly thoughts, A soul with all the dews of pathos shining, Odorous with love, and sweet to silent woe […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Nancy Knapp. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Nancy Knapp Well, don’t you see this was the way of it: We bought the farm with what he inherited, And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning His fathers mind against the rest of them. And we never had […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Shack Dye. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Shack Dye The white men played all sorts of jokes on me. They took big fish off my hook And put little ones on, while I was away Getting a stringer, and made me believe I hadn’t seen aright the fish […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Libido. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Libido How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet. Night was void arms and you a phantom still, And day your far light swaying down the street. As never fool for love, I starved […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Father Malloy. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Father Malloy You are over there, Father Malloy, Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave, Not here with us on the hill – Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins. You were […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Georgine Sand Miner. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Georgine Sand Miner A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me. A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue. For years I was his mistress — no one knew. I learned from him the parasite cunning With which I moved […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Elsa Wertman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Elsa Wertman I was a peasant girl from Germany, Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene’s. On a summer’s day when she was away He stole into the kitchen and took me Right […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Davis Matlock. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Davis Matlock Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey – (Material things as well as culture and wisdom) – For the next generation, this generation never living, Except […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dora Williams. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dora Williams When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just deceased left him a fortune. He married me when drunk. My life was wretched. A year passed and one day […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Nellie Clark. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Nellie Clark I was only eight years old; And before I grew up and knew what it meant I had no words for it, except That I was frightened and told my Mother; And that my Father got a pistol And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Ida Chicken. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Ida Chicken After I had attended lectures At our Chautauqua, and studied French For twenty years, committing the grammar Almost by heart, I thought I’d take a trip to Paris To give my culture a final polish. So I went to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hamlet Micure. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hamlet Micure In a lingering fever many visions come to you: I was in the little house again With its great yard of clover Running down to the board-fence, Shadowed by the oak tree, Where we children had our swing. Yet […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Roy Butler. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Roy Butler If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois Got at the secret of every case As well as it does a case of rape It would be the greatest court in the world. A jury, of neighbors mostly, with ”Butch” […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Captain Orlando Killion. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Captain Orlando Killion Oh, you young radicals and dreamers, You dauntless fledglings Who pass by my headstone, Mock not its record of my captaincy in the army And my faith in God! They are not denials of each other. Go by […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Treasure. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) The Treasure When colour goes home into the eyes, And lights that shine are shut again With dancing girls and sweet birds’ cries Behind the gateways of the brain; And that no-place which gave them birth, shall close The rainbow and the rose:– […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. William and Emily. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) William and Emily There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you have known passion, And the glow of youthful love, You also, after years of life Together, feel the sinking of the fire, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Tom Beatty. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Tom Beatty I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, Although by lamp-light, for thirty years, In that poker room in the opera house. And I say to you […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. English Thornton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) English Thornton Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Valley Forge, And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock, Arise! Do battle with the descendants of those Who bought land in the loop when it was waste sand, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Trainor the Druggist. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Trainor the Druggist Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact On each other, or what children will result? There were […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hannah Armstrong. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hannah Armstrong I wrote him a letter asking him for old times’ sake To discharge my sick boy from the army; But maybe he couldn’t read it. Then I went to town and had James Garber, Who wrote beautifully, write him […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Sarah Brown. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Sarah Brown Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree. The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass, The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls, But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous In the blest Nirvana […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Charlie French. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Charlie French Did you ever find out which of the boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and ”Bucky” Estil Was firing the cannon brought to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Zenas Witt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Zenas Witt I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams, And specks before my eyes, and nervous weakness. And I couldn’t remember the books I read, Like Frank Drummer who memorized page after page. And my back was weak, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Emily Sparks. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Emily Sparks Where is my boy, my boy – In what far part of the world? The boy I loved best of all in the school? – I, the teacher, the old maid, the virgin heart, Who made them all my […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dr. Siegfried Iseman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dr. Siegfried Iseman I said when they handed me my diploma, I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave and helpful to others; I said I will carry the Christian creed Into the practice of medicine! Somehow […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Home. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Home I came back late and tired last night Into my little room, To the long chair and the firelight And comfortable gloom. But as I entered softly in I saw a woman there, The line of neck and cheek and chin, […]
English Poetry. William Blake. To Winter. Уильям Блейк. К Зиме
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) To Winter ‘О Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.’ He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep Rides heavy; […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Barry Holden. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Barry Holden The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder of Zora Clemens, And I sat in the court two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Deacon Taylor. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Deacon Taylor I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon. In truth I had cirrhosis of the liver, For every noon for thirty years, I slipped behind the prescription […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Julia Miller. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Julia Miller We quarreled that morning, For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty, And I was nervous and heavy with the child Whose birth I dreaded. I thought over the last letter written me By that estranged young soul Whose […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. The Unknown. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) The Unknown Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Who lies here with no stone to mark the place. As a boy reckless and wanton, Wandering with gun in hand through the forest Near the mansion of Aaron […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Blind Jack. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Blind Jack I had fiddled all day at the county fair. But driving home ”Butch” Weldy and Jack McGuire, Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses Till they ran […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. A.D. Blood. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) A.D. Blood If you in the village think that my work was a good one, Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards, And haled old Daisy Fraser before Justice Arnett, In many a crusade to purge the people […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Fletcher McGee. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Fletcher McGee She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows, The minutes wheeled like stars. She took the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Alexander Throckmorton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Alexander Throckmorton In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could not follow my vision – Genius is wisdom and youth. Edgar Lee Masters’s […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mrs. Purkapile. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mrs. Purkapile He ran away and was gone for a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pretended […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rita Matlock Gruenberg. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rita Matlock Gruenberg Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys, And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six, Here is your little Rita at last Grown old, grown forty-nine; Here stretched on your grave under the winter stars, With the rustle […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Ante Aram. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Ante Aram Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper, Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies, Incense of dirges, prayers that are as holy myrrh. Ah, goddess, on thy throne of tears and faint low sighs, Weary at last to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Petit, The Poet. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Petit, The Poet Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel– Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens– But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof. Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Ballades by the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Roger Heston. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Roger Heston Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I Argue about the freedom of the will. My favorite metaphor was Prickett’s cow Roped out to grass, and free you know as far As the length of the rope. One day […]