English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Men Who March Away. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers) What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, Leaving all that here can win us; What of the faith and fire within […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) * * * For Life I had never cared greatly, As worth a man’s while; Peradventures unsought, Peradventures that finished in nought, Had kept me from youth and through manhood till lately Unwon by its style. In earliest years – why I […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. Original Epitaph on a Drunkard. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) Original Epitaph on a Drunkard PRAY who lies here? why don’t you know, ‘Tis stammering, staggering, boozy Joe; What, dead at last? I thought that death Could never stop his long long breath. True, death ne’er threw his dart at him, But kill’d, like […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. Almoran to Eliza With a Heart of Ice. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) Almoran to Eliza With a Heart of Ice The Poets, when they paint a pair Of perfect lovers, urge their care, To give them mutual charms; If dying softness seize the fair, The swain must sure, with languid air, Dissolve into her arms. Nay […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. The Widower. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) The Widower Happy the man, who free as air, By nuptial ties no longer bound, With dearest wife lays every care Low under ground. While he with fops, sips tea with toasts; Airy, and gay, in his attire; Whose pride, in age, and winter’s […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. On Time. Джонатан Свифт. Время
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) On Time Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. Перевод на русский язык Время Кого и что я в мире разрушаю, В конечном счёте, только я решаю. Я сроки назначаю и итожу, Я мир, […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Darkness. Джордж Гордон Байрон. Тьма
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Darkness I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dreams. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Dreams I had a dream, a dream of dread: I thought that horror held the house; A burglar bent above my bed, He moved as quiet as a mouse. With hairy hand and naked knife He poised to plunge a bloody stroke, […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Book Lover. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Book Lover I keep collecting books I know I’ll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never head. “Please make me,” says some wistful tome, “A wee bit of yourself.” And so I take my treasure […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. A Rusty Nail. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) A Rusty Nail I ran a nail into my hand, The wound was hard to heal; So bitter was the pain to stand I thought how it would feel, To have spikes thrust through hands and feet, Impaled by hammer beat. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Romance. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Romance In Paris on a morn of May I sent a radio transalantic To catch a steamer on the way, But oh the postal fuss was frantic; They sent me here, they sent me there, They were so courteous yet so canny; […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Tunnel. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Tunnel Toil’s a tunnel, there’s no way out For fellows, the like o’ me; A beggar wi’ only a crust an’ a clout At the worst o’ the worst is free; but I work to eat, an’ I eat to work; […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Summing Up. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Summing Up When you have sailed the seven seas And looped the ends of earth, You’ll long at last for slippered ease Beside a bonny hearth; A cosy cottage in the sun, A pleasant page to read - You’ll find when […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Damned. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Damned My days are haunted by the thought Of men in coils of Justice caught With stone and steel, in chain and cell, Of men condemned to living hell,– Yet blame them not. In my sun-joy their dark I see: […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Reverence. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Reverence I saw the Greatest Man on Earth, Aye, saw him with my proper eyes. A loin-cloth spanned his proper girth, But he was naked otherwise, Excepting for his grey sombrero; And when his domelike head he bared, With reverence I stared […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Guardian Angel. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) My Guardian Angel When looking back I dimly see The trails my feet have trod, Some hand divine, it seems to me, Has pulled the strings with God; Some angel form has lifeward leaned When hope for me was past; Some love […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. The Prologue. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) The Prologue Exult each patriot heart!-this night is shewn A piece, which we may fairly call our own; Where the proud titles of ‘My Lord! Your Grace!’ To humble Mr. and plain Sir give place. Our Author pictures not from foreign climes The fashions, […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. Market Women’s Cries. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) Market Women’s Cries APPLES COME buy my fine wares, Plums, apples and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have any? My children are seven, I wish them in Heaven; My husband ’s a sot, With his pipe […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. My Mistresses. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) My Mistresses LET Cowley soft in amorous verse The rovings of his love rehearse, With passion most unruly, Boast how he woo’d sweet Amoret, The sobbing Jane, and sprightly Bet, The lily fair and smart brunette, In sweet succession truly. But list, ye […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Loss and Restoration of Smell. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Loss and Restoration of Smell Dull to the year’s first odours, I rebelled Against the law which doomed the violets Ere I had smelt them; but, ere long, I held A quickened nostril over all the sweets Of the full summer–for I […]
English Poetry. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. First Series. 27. So to the mind long brooding but on it. Фредерик Годдард Такерман.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Фредерик Годдард Такерман) First Series. 27. So to the mind long brooding but on it So to the mind long brooding but on it A haunting theme for anger, joy, or tears, With ardent eyes, not what we think appears; But hunted home, behold! its […]
English Poetry. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. First Series. 13. As one who walks and weeps by alien brine. Фредерик Годдард Такерман.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Фредерик Годдард Такерман) First Series. 13. As one who walks and weeps by alien brine As one who walks and weeps by alien brine And hears the heavy land-wash break, so I, Apart from friends, remote in misery, But brood on pain and find in […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. A Forest Sunset. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) A Forest Sunset Once on a glorious and resplendent eve, Through copse and underwood my path I broke; The shining sun was on the point to leave, And flashed through thickets of the pine and oak; ‘Twas sweet to see those vari-coloured […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. The Sea-Side Truants. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) The Sea-Side Truants Wildly she passed along that crowded shore, With earnest eye fixed on the ocean rim: On came the tide, and all would soon wax dim, And she might never see her darlings more. But lo! what means that sail-like […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. East or West?. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) East or West? I sat within a window, looking west, On a fair autumn eve; the forest leaves Moved o’er a fiery sunset, vision blest After that day of storm and rainy eaves. While thus I gazed, I heard a sweet voice […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Prefatory. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Prefatory I dreamed I wrote an ode, and was not slack To bring it where two mighty umpires dealt The prize; but deep-mouthed Pindar bade me back, And laughing Horace–like a boy I felt, Who, idly thrumming on a single hair, Stretched […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Rival. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) My Rival If she met him or he met her, I knew that something must occur; For they were just like flint and steel To strike the spark of woe and weal; Or like two splinters broken fine, In perfect fitness to […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. L’Envoi (Ever in the ebb and flow). Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) L’Envoi (Ever in the ebb and flow) Ever in the ebb and flow Of my dreams that come and go, Reader, I have you in mind, Humbly hoping you will find In my verse a gleam that’s true To the dreams that […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. On the Moon. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) On the Moon I with borrow’d silver shine What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole. What will […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Bird Watcher. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Bird Watcher In Wall Street once a potent power, And now a multi-millionaire Alone within a shady bower In clothes his valet would not wear, He watches bird wings bright the air. The man who mighty mergers planned, And oil and […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Aftermath. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Aftermath Although my blood I’ve shed In war’s red wrath, Oh how I darkly dread Its aftermath! Oh how I fear the day Of my release, When I must face the fray Of phoney peace! When I must fend again […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Susie. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Susie My daughter Susie, aged two, Apes me in every way, For as my household chores I do With brooms she loves to play. A scrubbing brush to her is dear; Ah! Though my soul it vex, My bunch of cuteness has, […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Prelude (They say that rhyme and rhythm are). Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Prelude (They say that rhyme and rhythm are) They say that rhyme and rhythm are Outmoded now. I do not know, for I am far From high of brow. But if the twain you take away, Since basely bred, Proud Poetry, I […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. L’Envoi. Departmental Dittles. Редьярд Киплинг. L’Envoi к «Департаментским песенкам»
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) L’Envoi. Departmental Dittles The smoke upon your Altar dies, The flowers decay, The Goddess of your sacrifice Has flown away. What profit then to sing or slay The sacrifice from day to day? “We know the Shrine is void,” they said. “The Goddess […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Divided Destinies. Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о Бандаре, или Обезьяне
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Divided Destinies It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine, And many many other things, till, o’er my morning smoke, I slept the sleep of idleness and dreamt […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Beginnings. Редьярд Киплинг. Англия вступает в войну
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Beginnings 1914-18 “Mary Postgate”– A Diversity of Creatures It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the English began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. L’Envoi (THERE ‘s a whisper down the field). Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) L’Envoi (THERE ‘s a whisper down the field) THERE ‘s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield And the ricks stand gray to the sun, Singing:—’Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover And your English […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Ballad of the «Clampherdown». Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о «Кламфердауне»
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Ballad of the «Clampherdown» It was our war-ship Clampherdown Would sweep the Channel clean, Wherefore she kept her hatches close When the merry Channel chops arose, To save the bleached marine. She had one bow-gun of a hundred ton And a great […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. The Planet and the Tree. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) The Planet and the Tree The evening breeze is blowing from the lea Upon the fluttering elm; thou hast a mind, O star! methinks, to settle in the tree– But, ever baffled by the pettish wind, Thou movest back and forward, and […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. A New Year’s Gift for Bec. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) A New Year’s Gift for Bec Returning Janus now prepares, For Bec, a new supply of cares, Sent in a bag to Dr. Swift, Who thus displays the new-year’s gift. First, this large parcel brings you tidings Of our good Dean’s eternal chidings; Of […]