English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Beast and Man in India. 5. The Beasts are Very Wise. Редьярд Киплинг. Стихотворные эпиграфы для книги Джона Локвуда Киплинга ”Животное и человек в Индии”. 5. ”Животные мудры; они не лгут”
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Beast and Man in India. 5. The Beasts are Very Wise The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock’s brother Resting after their labours, Each in stall with his neighbours. But man […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal. The Passing of Love. Элизабет Элеонор Сиддал.
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (Элизабет Элеонор Сиддал) The Passing of Love O God, forgive me that I ranged My live into a dream of love! Will tears of anguish never wash The passion from my blood? Love kept my heart in a song of joy, My pulses quivered […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Road-Song of the Bandar-Log. Редьярд Киплинг. Дорожная песня бандар-логов
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Road-Song of the Bandar-Log (From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don’t you envy our pranceful bands? Don’t you wish you had extra hands? Would n’t you like if your tails were — […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Beast and Man in India. 4. Pigs and Buffaloes. Редьярд Киплинг. Стихотворные эпиграфы для книги Джона Локвуда Киплинга ”Животное и человек в Индии”. 4. Свиньи и буйволы
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Beast and Man in India. 4. Pigs and Buffaloes Dark children of the mere and marsh, Wallow and waste and lea, Outcaste they wait at the village gate With folk of low degree. Their pasture is in no man’s land, Their food the […]
English Poetry. Oscar Wilde. My Voice. Оскар Уайльд.
Oscar Wilde (Оскар Уайльд) My Voice WITHIN this restless, hurried, modern world We took our hearts’ full pleasure–You and I, And now the white sails of our ship are furled, And spent the lading of our argosy. Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan, For very […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Beast and Man in India. 3. The Elephant. Редьярд Киплинг. Стихотворные эпиграфы для книги Джона Локвуда Киплинга ”Животное и человек в Индии”. 3. Слон
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Beast and Man in India. 3. The Elephant Written for John Lockwood Kipling’s The torn boughs trailing o’er the tusks aslant, The saplings reeling in the path he trod, Declare his might–our lord the Elephant, Chief of the ways of God. […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Gods of the Copybook Headings. Редьярд Киплинг. Боги азбучных истин
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Gods of the Copybook Headings AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Galley-Slave. Редьярд Киплинг. Гребец галеры
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Galley-Slave Oh, gallant was our galley from her carven steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel. The leg-bar chafed the ankle and we gasped for cooler air, But no galley on the waters with our galley could compare! […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Destroyers. Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Destroyers 1898 The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The hate that swings the whole; The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom, At gaze and gone again – The Brides […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Arterial. Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Arterial Early Chinese –The Muse Among the Motors (1900-1930) I Frost upon small rain–the ebony-lacquered avenue Reflecting lamps as a pool shows goldfish. The sight suddenly emptied out of the young man’s eyes Entering upon it sideways. II In youth, […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Beast and Man in India. 2. The Oxen. Редьярд Киплинг. Стихотворные эпиграфы для книги Джона Локвуда Киплинга ”Животное и человек в Индии”. 2. Быки
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Beast and Man in India. 2. The Oxen Written for John Lockwood Kipling’s Between the waving tufts of jungle-grass, Up from the river as the twilight falls, Across the dust-beclouded plain they pass On to the village walls. Great is the sword […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. With Scindia to Delphi. Редьярд Киплинг. Со Сциндией – в Дели. 1890
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) With Scindia to Delphi More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after the day was lost with a beggar-girl, who had loved him and followed him in all his camps, on his […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Great-Heart. Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Great-Heart Theodore Roosevelt “The interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-Heart.” — Bunyan’s’ Pilgrim’s Progess. Concerning brave Captains Our age hath made known For all men to honour, One standeth alone, Of whom, o’er both oceans, Both […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Eddi’s Service. Редьярд Киплинг. Служба Эдди (687 г. н.э.)
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Eddi’s Service (A.D. 687) Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to attend. But the Saxons were keeping Christmas, And the night was stormy as well. Nobody came to service, […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Army Headquarters. Редьярд Киплинг. Штабная история
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Army Headquarters Old is the song that I sing – Old as my unpaid bills – Old as the chicken that khitmutgars1 bring Men at dak-bungalows — old as the Hills. AHASUERUS JENKINS of the “Operatic Own,” Was dowered with a tenor […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Sons of Martha. Редьярд Киплинг. Сыны Марфы. 1907
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Sons of Martha The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. And because she lost her temper once, and because she was […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Reformers. Редьярд Киплинг. Реформаторы. 1901
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Reformers 1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation’s sacrifice To turn the judgement from his race. Happy is he who, bred and taught By sleek, sufficing Circumstance – Whose Gospel was […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Prophets at Home. Редьярд Киплинг. Пророки в своём отечестве
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Prophets at Home “Hal O’ the Draft”–Puck of Pook’s Hill Prophets have honour all over the Earth, Except in the village where they were born, Where such as knew them boys from birth Nature-ally hold ’em in scorn. When Prophets are naughty […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Four Angels. Редьярд Киплинг. Четыре Ангела
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Four Angels “With the Night Mail”–Actions and Reactions As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree The Angel of the Earth came down, and offered Earth in fee; But Adam did not need it, Nor the plough he would not speed it, […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. «Epitaphs of the War». 1914-1918. 22. A Dead Statesman. Редьярд Киплинг. «Эпитафии Войны». 1914-1918. 22. Государственный муж
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) «Epitaphs of the War». 1914-1918. 22. A Dead Statesman I could not dig; I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. A Tree Song. Редьярд Киплинг. Гимн деревьям
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) A Tree Song (A. D. 1200) Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs, (All of a Midsummer morn!) […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Pharaoh and the Sergeant. Редьярд Киплинг. Фараон и Сержант. 1897
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Pharaoh and the Sergeant 1897 “… Consider that the meritorious services of the Sergeant Instructors attached to the Egyptian Army haue been inadequately acknowledged… To the excellence of their work is mainly due the great improvement that has taken place in the soldiers […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. A Pilgrim’s Way. Редьярд Киплинг. Путь пилигрима
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) A Pilgrim’s Way I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray. If these are added I rejoice – if not, I shall not mind So long as I have […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Kitchener’s School. Редьярд Киплинг. Школа Китченера. 1898
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Kitchener’s School 1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedan schoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service at Suakim) when he heard that Kitchener was taking money from the English to build a Madrissa for […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Sestina of the Tramp-Royal. Редьярд Киплинг. Секстина царственных бродяг. 1896
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Sestina of the Tramp-Royal 1896 Speakin’ in general, I ’ave tried ’em all— The ’appy roads that take you o’er the world. Speakin’ in general, I ’ave found them good For such as cannot use one bed too long, But […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Rimmon. Редьярд Киплинг. Риммон. 1903. После Бурской войны
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Rimmon 1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake– Bent head and shaded brow,– Yet once again, for my father’s sake, In Rimmon’s House I bow. The curtains part, the trumpet blares, And the eunuchs howl aloud; And […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Queen’s Men. Редьярд Киплинг. Слуги Королевы
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Queen’s Men Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy–ah! even to tears! – The fortune of their years Which, though so few, yet so divinely ended. Scarce had they lifted up Life’s full and […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Old Men. Редьярд Киплинг. Старики. 1902
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Old Men 1902 This is our lot if we live so long and labour unto the end – Then we outlive the impatient years and the much too patient friend: And because we know we have breath in our mouth and think […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Winners. Редьярд Киплинг. Победитель
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Winners (“The Story of the Gadsbys”) What the moral? Who rides may read. When the night is thick and the tracks are blind A friend at a pinch is a friend, indeed, But a fool to wait for the laggard behind. Down […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Storm Cone. Редьярд Киплинг. Штормовой сигнал. 1932
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Storm Cone 1932 This is the midnight-let no star Delude us-dawn is very far. This is the tempest long foretold- Slow to make head but sure to hold Stand by! The lull ‘twixt blast and blast Signals the […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Feet of the Young Men. Редьярд Киплинг. Поступь Новых Поколений. 1897
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Feet of the Young Men NOW the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the Hunting Winds are loose — Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain; Now the Young Men’s hearts are troubled for the whisper of the Trues, Now […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Stranger. Редьярд Киплинг. Чужак
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Stranger Canadian The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk– I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Destroyers. Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Destroyers 1898 The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The hate that swings the whole; The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom, At gaze and gone again – The Brides […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Arterial. Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Arterial Early Chinese –The Muse Among the Motors (1900-1930) I Frost upon small rain–the ebony-lacquered avenue Reflecting lamps as a pool shows goldfish. The sight suddenly emptied out of the young man’s eyes Entering upon it sideways. II In youth, […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Beast and Man in India. 2. The Oxen. Редьярд Киплинг. Стихотворные эпиграфы для книги Джона Локвуда Киплинга ”Животное и человек в Индии”. 2. Быки
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Beast and Man in India. 2. The Oxen Written for John Lockwood Kipling’s Between the waving tufts of jungle-grass, Up from the river as the twilight falls, Across the dust-beclouded plain they pass On to the village walls. Great is the sword […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. With Scindia to Delphi. Редьярд Киплинг. Со Сциндией – в Дели. 1890
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) With Scindia to Delphi More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after the day was lost with a beggar-girl, who had loved him and followed him in all his camps, on his […]
English Poetry. Edith Wharton. The Parting Day. Эдит Уортон.
Edith Wharton (Эдит Уортон) The Parting Day I. SOME busy hands have brought to light, And laid beneath my eye, The dress I wore that afternoon You came to say good-by. About it still there seems to cling Some fragrance unexpressed, The ghostly odor of the […]
English Poetry. Edith Wharton. An Autumn Sunset. Эдит Уортон.
Edith Wharton (Эдит Уортон) An Autumn Sunset I LEAGUERED in fire The wild black promontories of the coast extend Their savage silhouettes; The sun in universal carnage sets, And, halting higher, The motionless storm-clouds mass their sullen threats, Like an advancing mob in sword-points penned, That, balked, […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Great-Heart. Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Great-Heart Theodore Roosevelt “The interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-Heart.” — Bunyan’s’ Pilgrim’s Progess. Concerning brave Captains Our age hath made known For all men to honour, One standeth alone, Of whom, o’er both oceans, Both […]
English Poetry. Oscar Wilde. Her Voice. Оскар Уайльд.
Oscar Wilde (Оскар Уайльд) Her Voice THE wild bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing. Now in a lily-cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering; Sit closer love: it was here I trow I made that vow, […]