English Poetry. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Autumn Within. Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло) Autumn Within It is autumn; not without, But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old. Birds are darting through the air, Singing, building without rest; Life is stirring everywhere, […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. A Prologue to be Spoken by Mr. Frankley. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) A Prologue to be Spoken by Mr. Frankley To shew the vile intentions of the mind To paint the real vices of mankind To drag out crimes conceal’d in shades of night To fetch the lurking mischief to the light To shew the effects […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. Convivial Song for General Morris. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) Convivial Song for General Morris Talk not of your Washington’s, Hancock’s and Sullivan’s, And all the wild crew; Our Tom set on high With his single eye Can more espy Than they can with two. Here’s to eagle-eyed Gideon, Who keeps his eye steady […]
English Poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer’s Prophecy. Джеффри Чосер.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Джеффри Чосер) Chaucer’s Prophecy When priestes failen in their saws, And lordes turne Godde’s laws Against the right; And lechery is holden as privy solace, And robbery as free purchase, Beware then of ill! Then shall the Land of Albion Turne to confusion, As sometime it […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. A Christmas Hymn Sung in the Episcopal Church at Claremont on the Anniversary of That Festival Decem. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) A Christmas Hymn Sung in the Episcopal Church at Claremont on the Anniversary of That Festival Decem 1. Hail to the joyous day, On which our Lord was born; Lift high the vocal lay, And sing the blissful morn. Your voices raise! To […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. The Death Song of Alknomook. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) The Death Song of Alknomook I The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day; But glory remains when their lights fade away! Begin, ye tormentors! your threats are in vain, For the son of Alknomook shall never complain. II […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Song of the Banjo. Редьярд Киплинг. Песнь Банджо
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Song of the Banjo You couldn’t pack a Broadwood half a mile – You mustn’t leave a fiddle in the damp You couldn’t raft an organ up the Nile, And play it in an Equatorial swamp. I travel with the cooking-pots and pails […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. Ode to Neptune. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) Ode to Neptune On Mrs. W—–‘s Voyage to England. I. WHILE raging tempests shake the shore, While AElus’ thunders round us roar, And sweep impetuous o’er the plain Be still, O tyrant of the main; Nor let thy brow contracted frowns betray, […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To Maecenas. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To Maecenas MAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade, Read o’er what poets sung, and shepherds play’d. What felt those poets but you feel the same? Does not your soul possess the sacred flame? Their noble strains your equal genius shares In softer language, and […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. On Virtue. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) On Virtue O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach. I cease to wonder, and no more attempt Thine height t’explore, or fathom thy profound. But, O my […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Cats. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Cats They fought like demons of the night Beneath a shrunken moon, And all the roof at dawn of light With fiddle-strings was strewn. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms The Honey-Bee The Pleiads […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Garnered. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Garnered The tints that fly the autumn leaves, The leaves that fly the tree, Anon the Wizard Winter weaves In blossoms yet to be. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms The Honey-Bee The Pleiads […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Consecration. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Consecration The Twilight to my Star, Her hoary head A Hope receding far, To Life re-led. Apart and poor I lay; My fevered frame Slow withering away, When soft she came, From comfort, to my care; And Pity sweet Subdued […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Poe’s Purgatory. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Poe’s Purgatory All others rest; but I Dream-haunted lie— A distant roar, As of tumultuous waters, evermore About my brain. E’en Sleep, tho’ fain To soothe me, flies affrighted, and alone I bear the incumbent stone Of Death That stifles breath, […]
English Poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer. An ABC. Джеффри Чосер.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Джеффри Чосер) An ABC Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti. Almighty and al merciable queene, To whom that al this world fleeth for socour, To have relees of sinne, of sorwe, and teene, Glorious virgine, of alle floures flour, To thee I flee, confounded […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. The Vampire Moon. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) The Vampire Moon The vital vapors to absorb, The moon, with famished gaze, Suspends her lean, malignant orb Above a dying face. I watch her like a folded flower, As silently expand The pulses waving hour by hour And heavier the […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. A Blind Man’s Epitaph. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) A Blind Man’s Epitaph His eyes were dim; so here he lies, Whose death came after his dim-ise. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms A Duet Butterfly 899 To the […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To a Lady and Her Children. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To a Lady and Her Children O’erwhelming sorrow now demands my song: From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung. What flowing tears? What hearts with grief opprest? What sighs on sighs heave the fond parent’s breast? The brother weeps, the hapless sisters join Th’ increasing […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. A Hymn to the Evening. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) A Hymn to the Evening Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing, Exhales the incense of the blooming spring. Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes, And through […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep intent, And thought in living characters to paint, When first thy pencil did those beauties give, And breathing figures learnt from thee to live, How did those […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. From Lightning and Tempest. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) From Lightning and Tempest The spring-wind pass’d through the forest, and whispered low in the leaves, And the cedar toss’d her head, and the oak stood firm in his pride; The spring-wind pass’d through the town, through the housetops, casements, and eaves, […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Confiteor. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Confiteor The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing; The skies are clear, and the dawn is bright, Tho’ the bar of the bay is fleck’d with white, And the wind is fitfully wailing; Near the […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. No Name. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) No Name “A stone upon her heart and head, But no name written on that stone; Sweet neighbours whisper low instead, This sinner was a loving one.” — Mrs. Browning. ‘Tis a nameless stone that stands at your head — […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Sunlight on the Sea. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Sunlight on the Sea [The Philosophy of a Feast] Make merry, comrades, eat and drink (The sunlight flickers on the sea), The garlands gleam, the glasses clink, The grape juice mantles fair and free, The lamps are trimm’d, although the light […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Unshriven. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Unshriven Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness’d in the hall. And he left his lady’s bower, and he sought the eastern tower, And he lifted cloak and weapon from the […]
English Poetry. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Ecclesiastes. Гилберт Кит Честертон.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон) Ecclesiastes There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray, Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth. There is one blasphemy: for death to pray, For God alone knoweth the praise of death. There is one creed: ’’neath no world-terror’s wing […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. On Imagination. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) On Imagination The various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! The wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is thine hand. From Helicon’s refulgent heights attend, Ye sacred choir, […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To the University of Cambridge, in New-England. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To the University of Cambridge, in New-England WHILE an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses promise to assist my pen; ‘Twas not long since I left my native shore, The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, ’twas thy gracious hand […]
English Poetry. Charles Sackville. On King William’s Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination. Чарльз Сэквилл.
Charles Sackville (Чарльз Сэквилл) On King William’s Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey’d, Finding his royal enemy betray’d And in his chariot by vile hands opprest, With noble pity and just rage posses’t, Wept at the fall of so sublime […]
English Poetry. Charles Sackville. To Mr. Edward Howard on His New. Чарльз Сэквилл.
Charles Sackville (Чарльз Сэквилл) To Mr. Edward Howard on His New Utopia Thou damn’d antipodes to common sense! Thou foil to Flecknoe! Prithee tell from whence Does all this mighty stock of dullness spring, Which in such loads thou to the stage dost bring? Is’t all thy […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Itylus. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн. Итис
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Itylus Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow? What hast thou found in thine heart to sing? What […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. In Memory of Walter Savage Landor. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) In Memory of Walter Savage Landor Back to the flower-town, side by side, The bright months bring, New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, Freedom and spring. The sweet land laughs from sea to sea, Filled full of sun; All things come […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Cor Cordium. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Cor Cordium O heart of hearts, the chalice of love’s fire, Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom; O wonderful and perfect heart, for whom The lyrist liberty made life a lyre; O heavenly heart, at whose most dear […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Swimmer’s Dream. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) A Swimmer’s Dream NOVEMBER 4, 1889 Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love’s own self was the deep sea’s daughter, Fair and flawless from face to feet, […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Oblation. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) The Oblation Ask nothing more of me, sweet; All I can give you I give. Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet— Love that should help you to live, Song that should spur you to […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Nephelidia. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Nephelidia From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float, Are they looks […]
English Poetry. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. A Little Litany. Гилберт Кит Честертон.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон) A Little Litany When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low arch the land is bright) Peered through you, gate of heaven–and saw the earth. Or shutting out his […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. In the Bay. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) In the Bay I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery resonance and rest, Is as a port with clouds for harbour bar To fold the fleet in of […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Choriambics. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Choriambics Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was made lovely, we thought, with love? What sweet visions of sleep lured thee away, down from the light above? What strange faces of dreams, voices that called, hands that were raised […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. I Look in Her Face. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) * * * (Song: Minor) I look in her face and say, ‘Sing as you used to sing About Love’s blossoming;’ But she hints not Yea or Nay. ‘Sing, then, that Love’s a pain, If, Dear, you think it so, Whether […]