English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hare Drummer. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hare Drummer Do the boys and girls still go to Siever’s For cider, after school, in late September? Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets On Aaron Hatfield’s farm when the frosts begin? For many times with the laughing girls and […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Elmer Karr. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Elmer Karr What but the love of God could have softened And made forgiving the people of Spoon River Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt And murdered him beside? Oh, loving hearts that took me in again When […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Zilpha Marsh. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Zilpha Marsh At four o’clock in late October I sat alone in the country school-house Back from the road ’mid stricken fields, And an eddy of wind blew leaves on the pane, And crooned in the flue of the cannon-stove, With […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jefferson Howard. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jefferson Howard My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. The Circuit Judge. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) The Circuit Judge Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain – Almost as if an intangible Nemesis or hatred Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve, my memory. […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rebecca Wasson. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rebecca Wasson Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring, After each other drifting, past my window drifting! And I lay so many years watching them drift and counting The years till a terror came in my heart at times, With […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Knowlt Hoheimer. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Knowlt Hoheimer I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet enter my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Eugenia Todd. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Eugenia Todd Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? Or a pain in the side that never quite left you? Or a malignant growth that grew with time? So that even in profoundest slumber […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Judge Selah Lively. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Judge Selah Lively Suppose you stood just five feet two, And had worked your way as a grocery clerk, Studying law by candle light Until you became an attorney at law? And then suppose through your diligence, And regular church attendance, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Anthony Findlay. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Anthony Findlay Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, ’Tis better to be feared than loved. And if this country would rather part With the friendship of every nation Than surrender […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. A Letter to a Live Poet. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) A Letter to a Live Poet Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light more glorious Or deeper blindness, no man’s hand, as thine, Has, on the world’s most noblest chord […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Pauline Barrett. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Pauline Barrett Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon’s knife! And almost a year to creep back into strength, Till the dawn of our wedding decennial Found me my seeming self again. We walked the forest together, By a […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Carl Hamblin. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Carl Hamblin The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the day the Anarchists were hanged in Chicago: ”I saw a beautiful woman with bandaged eyes Standing on the steps […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. William H. Herndon. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) William H. Herndon There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor closed, sitting out life’s decline, Day by day did I look in my memory, As one who gazes […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Voltaire Johnson. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Voltaire Johnson Why did you bruise me with your rough places If you did not want me to tell you about them? And stifle me with your stupidities, If you did not want me to expose them? And nail me with […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mrs. Williams. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mrs. Williams I was the milliner Talked about, lied about, Mother of Dora, Whose strange disappearance Was charged to her rearing. My eye quick to beauty Saw much beside ribbons And buckles and feathers And leghorns and felts, To set off […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Benjamin Painter. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Benjamin Painter Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down the grey road, friends, children, men and women, Passing one by one out of life, left […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Aaron Hatfield. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Aaron Hatfield Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There at Concord Church on Communion day. Speaking in broken voice of the peasant youth Of Galilee who went to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dippold the Optician. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dippold the Optician What do you see now? Globes of red, yellow, purple. Just a moment! And now? My father and mother and sisters. Yes! And now? Knights at arms, beautiful women, kind faces. Try […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Lilian Stewart. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Lilian Stewart I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins, Born in a cottage near the grist-mill, Reared in the mansion there on the hill, With its spires, bay-windows, and roof of slate. How proud my mother was of the mansion! How […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Russian Sonia. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Russian Sonia I, born in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen years, Became a dancer, known as Russian Sonia, All up and down the boulevards of Paris, Mistress betimes of sundry […]
English Poetry. Anne Brontë. The Narrow Way. Энн Бронте.
Anne Brontë (Энн Бронте) The Narrow Way Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth, Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way And faint before the truth. It is the only road Unto the realms of joy; But he who seeks that blest abode Must all […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mrs. Kessler. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mrs. Kessler Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood on the corner talking politics, Or sat at home reading Grant’s Memoirs; And I supported the family by washing, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Barney Hainsfeather. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Barney Hainsfeather If the excursion train to Peoria Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life – Certainly I should have escaped this place. But as it was burned as well, they mistook me For John Allen who […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Percy Bysshe Shelley My father who owned the wagon-shop And grew rich shoeing horses Sent me to the University of Montreal. I learned nothing and returned home, Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler, Hunting quail and snipe. At Thompson’s Lake the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Doctor Meyers. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Doctor Meyers No other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the weak, the halt, the improvident And those who could not pay flocked to me. I was good-hearted, easy Doctor […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Tom Merritt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Tom Merritt At first I suspected something – She acted so calm and absent-minded. And one day I heard the back door shut, As I entered the front, and I saw him slink Back of the smokehouse into the lot, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Harry Wilmans. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Harry Wilmans I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. ”The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, ”Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of Tagalogs Or […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Reuben Pantier. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Reuben Pantier Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted, Your love was not all in vain. I owe whatever I was in life To your hope that would not give me up, To your love that saw me still as […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Columbus Cheney. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Columbus Cheney This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not yet born, As well as for us? Are they not non-existent, or cells asleep Without mind? Or do they come to earth, their […]
English Poetry. William Blake. Thou Hearest the Nightingale Begin the Song of Spring. Уильям Блейк. Ты слышишь, первый соловей заводит песнь весны
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) * * * Thou hearest the Nightingale begin the Song of Spring. The Lark sitting upon his earthy bed, just as the morn Appears, listens silent; then springing from the waving Cornfield, loud He leads the Choir of Day: trill, trill, trill, trill, Mounting […]
English Poetry. Joanna Baillie. Female Picture of a Country Life. Джоанна Бейли.
Joanna Baillie (Джоанна Бейли) Female Picture of a Country Life Even now methinks Each little cottage of my native vale Swells out its earthen sides, upheaves its roof, Like to a hillock moved by labouring mole, And with green trail-weeds clambering up its walls, Roses and every gay […]
English Poetry. Joanna Baillie. A Winter Day. Джоанна Бейли.
Joanna Baillie (Джоанна Бейли) A Winter Day The cock, warm roosting ‘midst his feather’d dames, Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air, Stretches his neck and claps his heavy wings, Gives three hoarse crows, and glad his talk is done; Low, chuckling, turns himself upon the […]
English Poetry. Joanna Baillie. Hay-Making. Джоанна Бейли.
Joanna Baillie (Джоанна Бейли) Hay-Making Upon the grass no longer hangs the dew; Forth hies the mower with his glittering scythe, In snowy shirt bedight, and all unbraced, He moves athwart the mead with sideling bend, And lays the grass in many a swathy line: In every field, […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. Life and Death. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) Life and Death I THOUGHT of death beside the lonely sea That went beyond the limit of my sight, Seeming the image of his mastery, The semblance of his huge and gloomy might. But firm beneath the sea went the great […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. When Spring Goes By. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) When Spring Goes By The winds that on the uplands softly lie, Grow keener where the ice is lingering still Where the first robin on the sheltered hill Pipes blithely to the tune, “When Spring goes by!” Hear him again, “Spring! Spring!” […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for his Country in France. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for his Country in France Tossed like a falcon from the hunter’s wrist, A sweeping plunge, a sudden shattering noise, And thou hast dared, with a long spiral twist, The elastic stairway to the rising sun. […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Violet Pressed in a Copy of Shakespeare. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Violet Pressed in a Copy of Shakespeare Here in the inmost of the master’s heart This violet crisp with early dew Has come to leave her beauty and to part With all her vivid hue. And while in hollow […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Height of Land. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Height of Land Here is the height of land: The watershed on either hand Goes down to Hudson Bay Or Lake Superior; The stars are up, and far away The wind sounds in the wood, wearier Than the long Ojibwa […]
English Poetry. Duncan Campbell Scott. The Half-Breed Girl. Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт.
Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт) The Half-Breed Girl She is free of the trap and the paddle, The portage and the trail, But something behind her savage life Shines like a fragile veil. Her dreams are undiscovered, Shadows trouble her breast, When the time for resting […]