English Poetry. James Joyce. Flood. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Flood Goldbrown upon the sated flood The rockvine clusters lift and sway; Vast wings above the lambent waters brood Of sullen day. A waste of waters ruthlessly Sways and uplifts its weedy mane Where brooding day stares down upon the sea In […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Ecce Puer. Джеймс Джойс. Ecce Puer
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Ecce Puer Of the dark past A child is born; With joy and grief My heart is torn. Calm in his cradle The living lies. May love and mercy Unclose his eyes! Young life is breathed On the glass; The world that […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 29. Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 29. Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So? Dear heart, why will you use me so? Dear eyes that gently me upbraid, Still are you beautiful—but O, How is your beauty raimented! Through the clear mirror of your eyes, Through […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 11. Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 11. Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, Bid adieu to girlish days, Happy Love is come to woo Thee and woo thy girlish ways— The zone that doth become thee fair, The snood upon thy yellow hair, When thou […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 3. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 3. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose At that hour when all things have repose, O lonely watcher of the skies, Do you hear the night wind and the sighs Of harps playing unto Love to unclose The pale gates […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 35. All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 35. All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan, Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the winds cry to the water’s Monotone. The grey winds, the […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. Porphyria’s Lover. Роберт Браунинг. Возлюбленный Порфирии
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Porphyria’s Lover The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. A Flower Given to My Daughter. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) A Flower Given to My Daughter Frail the white rose and frail are Her hands that gave Whose soul is sere and paler Than time’s wan wave. Rosefrail and fair — yet frailest A wonder wild In gentle eyes thou veilest, My blueveined […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Sleep did come wi’ the Dew. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Sleep did come wi’ the Dew O when our zun’s a-zinkèn low, How soft’s the light his feäce do drow Upon the backward road our mind Do turn an’ zee a-left behind; When we, in childhood’s days did vind Our jaÿ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. The Brook that Ran by Gramfer’s. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. The Brook that Ran by Gramfer’s When snow-white clouds wer thin an’ vew Avore the zummer sky o’ blue, An’ I’d noo ho but how to vind Zome plaÿ to entertaïn my mind; Along the water, as did wind Wi’ zedgy […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Woodley. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Woodley Sweet Woodley! oh! how fresh an’ gaÿ Thy leänes an’ vields be now in Maÿ, The while the broad-leav’d clotes do zwim In brooks wi’ gil’cups at the brim; An’ yollow cowslip-beds do grow By thorns in blooth so white […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. To a Youthful Friend. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) To a Youthful Friend 1. Few years have pass’d since thou and I Were firmest friends, at least in name, And Childhood’s gay sincerity Preserved our feelings long the same. 2. But now, like me, too well thou know’st […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. To Harriet. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) To Harriet 1. Harriet! to see such Circumspection, In Ladies I have no objection Concerning what they read; An ancient Maid’s a sage adviser, Like her you will be much the wiser, In word, as well as Deed. […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Song (Breeze of the night in gentler sighs). Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Song (Breeze of the night in gentler sighs) 1. Breeze of the night in gentler sighs More softly murmur o’er the billow; For Slumber seals my Fanny’s eyes, And Peace must never shun her pillow. 2. Or […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Queries to Casuists. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Queries to Casuists The Moralists tell us that Loving is Sinning, And always are prating about and about it, But as Love of Existence itself’s the beginning, Say, what would Existence itself be without it? They argue the point […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. To an Oak at Newstead. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) To an Oak at Newstead 1. Young Oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground, I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine; That thy dark-waving branches would flourish around, And ivy thy trunk with its mantle […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Ballad of a Bachelor. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Ballad of a Bachelor Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three or four. Two maids for his affection vied, And each desired to be his bride, […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. Life in a Love. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Life in a Love Escape me? Never— Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth While the one eludes, must the other pursue. My life is a fault […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Jabed Meeker, Humorist. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Jabed Meeker, Humorist Twain? Oh, yes, I’ve heard Mark Twain Heard him down to Pleasant Plain; Funny? Yes, I guess so. Folks Seemed to laugh loud at his jokes— Laughed to beat the band; but I Couldn’t rightly make out why. […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Djolan. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Djolan Soft was the night, the eve how airy, When through the big, fat dictionary I wandered on in careless ease, And read the a’s, b’s, c’s and d’s! But stop! What is this form I see, Beginning with a […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. An Old-Fashioned Garden. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) An Old-Fashioned Garden Strange, is it not? She was making her garden, Planting the old-fashioned flowers that day— Bleeding-hearts tender and bachelors-buttons— Spreading the seeds in the old-fashioned way. Just in the old fashioned way, too, our quarrel Grew until, […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere, To think that one I held so dear Should use a base deceiver’s art To trifle with my loving heart. A brand new ten-cent valentine With lace and hearts and […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. A Question. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) A Question Whene’er I feed the barnyard folk My gentle soul is vexed; My sensibilities are torn And I am sore perplexed. The rooster so politely stands While waiting for his food, But when I feed him, what a change! […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Would You Believe It?. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Would You Believe It? One year ago I wished that I A banker great might be With a hundred million dollars And financial majesty; A mighty Wall Street banker With a whopping lot of power And an income of somewhere […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Why I Went to the Foot. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Why I Went to the Foot Was ever a maiden so worried? I’ll admit I am partial to Jim, For Jimmie has promised to wed me When I’m old enough to wed him. But then I love teacher, too, dearly, She’s […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Trespassers. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Trespassers When Love and I drew softly nigh And gazed in modest Chloe’s eye We saw reflected there in part The lovely mansion of her heart, A sight so fair that, quite bereft Of sense and shame, we had but left […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. To Phyllis and May. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) To Phyllis and May O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May, Which of you carried my heart away? Who has my heart? I would like to know Which was the guilty one of the two, But I only know it was […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. To Kate (In Lieu of a Valentine). Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) To Kate (In Lieu of a Valentine) Sweet Love and I had oft communed; We were, indeed, great friends, And oft I sought his office, near Where Courtship Alley ends. I used to sit with him, and smoke, And talk of […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. A Wall. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) A Wall O the old wall here! How I could pass Life in a long midsummer day, My feet confined to a plot of grass, My eyes from a wall not once away! And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe Yon wall […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Water Nymphs. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Water Nymphs They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer, Laughing amain when I feign to depart; Often I hear them, now faint and now clearer— Innocent bold or so sweetly discreet. Are they Nymphs of the […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day. And then, of a sudden, it up and bust, And all that was […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Tearful Tale of Captain Dan. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Tearful Tale of Captain Dan A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And one to Skiddaw West. Now Ann Eliza was the name Of her at East Skiddaw; […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Romance of Patrolman Casey. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Romance of Patrolman Casey There was a young patrolman who Had large but tender feet; They always hurt him badly when He walked upon his beat. (He always took them with him when He walked upon his beat.) His name […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Rich Boy’s Christmas. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Rich Boy’s Christmas And now behold this sulking boy, His costly presents bring no joy; Harsh tears of anger fill his eye Tho’ he has all that wealth can buy. What profits it that he employs His many gifts to […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Poor Boy’s Christmas. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Poor Boy’s Christmas Observe, my child, this pretty scene, And note the air of pleasure keen With which the widow’s orphan boy Toots his tin horn, his only toy. What need of costly gifts has he? The widow has nowhere […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Daughter of the Year. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Daughter of the Year Nature, when she made thee, dear, Begged the treasures of the year. For thy cheeks, all pink and white, Spring gave apple blossoms light; Summer, for thy matchless eyes, Gave the azure of her skies; Autumn spun […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at Farmington. But until our days on earth are done Our blood will burn and […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Ballade of the Mistletoe Bough. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Ballade of the Mistletoe Bough I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me plainly know That not for me is the thing I prize; Instead, from her coldly scornful […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Ballade of the Automobile. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Ballade of the Automobile When our yacht sails seaward on steady keel And the wind is moist with breath of brine And our laughter tells of our perfect weal, We may carol the praises of ruby wine; But if, automobiling, my […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. A Light Woman. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) A Light Woman I. So far as our story approaches the end, Which do you pity the most of us three?— My friend, or the mistress of my friend With her wanton eyes, or me? II. My friend was already too […]