English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. June. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) June June is here, the month of roses, month of brides and month of bees, Weaving garlands for our lassies, whispering love songs in the trees, Painting scenes of gorgeous splendor, canvases no man could brush, Changing scenes from early morning till […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Grown Up. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Grown Up Last year he wanted building blocks, And picture books and toys, A saddle horse that gayly rocks, And games for little boys. But now he’s big and all that stuff His whim no longer suits; He tells us that he’s […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. At Christmas. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here; Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before, And the laughter of […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. A Fine Sight. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) A Fine Sight I reckon the finest sight of all That a man can see in this world of ours Ain’t the works of art on the gallery wall, Or the red an’ white o’ the fust spring flowers, Or a hoard […]
English Poetry. Lloyd Mifflin. To a Maple Seed. Ллойд Миффлин.
Lloyd Mifflin (Ллойд Миффлин) To a Maple Seed ART thou some wingëd Sprite, that, fluttering round, Exhausted on the grass at last doth lie, Or wayward Fay? Ah, weakling, by and by Thyself shalt grow a giant, strong and sound, When, like Antaeus, thou dost touch the […]
English Poetry. Lloyd Mifflin. Fiat Lux. Ллойд Миффлин.
Lloyd Mifflin (Ллойд Миффлин) Fiat Lux Then that dread angel near the awful throne, Leaving the seraphs ranged in flaming tiers, Winged his dark way through those unpinioned spheres, And on the void’s black beetling edge, alone, Stood with raised wings, and listened for the tone Of God’s […]
English Poetry. James Henry Leigh Hunt. An Angel in the House. Джеймс Генри Ли Хант.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант) An Angel in the House How sweet it were, if without feeble fright, Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight, An angel came to us, and we could bear To see him issue from the silent air At evening in […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. The Glorious Company. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) The Glorious Company “Faces, faces, faces of the streaming marching surge, Streaming on the weary road, toward the awful steep, Whence your glow and glory, as ye set to that sharp verge, Faces lit as sunlit stars, shining as ye sweep? […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. A Resurrection. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) A Resurrection Neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. I was quick in the flesh, was warm, and the live heart shook my breast; In the market I bought and sold, in the temple I bowed my […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. The Story of the “Orient”. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) The Story of the “Orient” ‘T was a pleasant Sunday morning while the spring was in its glory, English spring of gentle glory; smoking by his cottage door, Florid-faced, the man-o’-war’s-man told his white-head boy the story, Noble story of Aboukir, told […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 29. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 29 Why died I not whenas I last did sleep? O sleep too short that shadowed forth my dear! Heavens, hear my prayers, nor thus me waking keep! For this were heaven, if thus I sleeping were. For in […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 39. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 39 Fair matchless nymph, respect but what I crave; My thoughts are true, and honour is my love; I fainting die whom yet a smile might save; You gave the wound, and can the hurt remove. Those eyes like […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 4. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 4 Love and my love did range the forest wild, Mounted alike, upon swift coursers both. Love her encountered, though he was a child. “Let’s strive,” saith he, whereat my love was wroth, And scorned the boy, and checked […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 32. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 32 Years, months, days, hours, in sighs I sadly spend; I black the night wherein I sleepless toss; I love my griefs yet wish them at an end; Thus time’s expense increaseth but my loss. I musing stand and […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 27. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 27 The crystal stream wherein my love did swim, Melted in tears as partners of my woe; Her shine was such as did the fountain dim, The pearl-like fountain whiter than the snow; Then like perfume, resolvéd with a […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 8. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 8 Hard are the rocks, the marble, and the steel, The ancient oak with wind and weather tossed; But you, my love, far harder do I feel Than flint, or these, or is the winter’s frost. My tears too […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 23. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 23 My love was masked, and armed with a fan, To see the sun so careless of his light, Which stood and gazed, and gazing waxéd wan To see a star himself that was more bright. Some did surmise […]
English Poetry. James Henry Leigh Hunt. The Glove and The Lions. Джеймс Генри Ли Хант.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант) The Glove and The Lions King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day as his lions fought, sat looking on the court; The nobles filled the benches, and the ladies in their pride, And […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 15. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 15 I stood amazed, and saw my Licia shine, Fairer than Phoeligbus, in his brightest pride, Set forth in colors by a hand divine, Where naught was wanting but a soul to guide. It was a picture, that I […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 41. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 41 If, aged Charon, when my life shall end, I pass thy ferry and my waftage pay, Thy oars shall fall, thy boat and mast shall rend, And through the deep shall be a dry foot-way. For why? My […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Two. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Two One sang all day, more merry than the lark That mounts the morning skies: One silent sat, and lifted patient eyes. One heart kept happy time, from dawn to dark, With all glad things that be: One, listless, throbbed alone […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Love in Little. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Love in Little BECAUSE the rose the bloom of blossoms is, And queenliest in beauty and in grace, The violet’s tender blue we love no less, Or daisy, glancing up with shy, sweet face. For all the music which the forest […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. October. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) October THE summer-rose is dead; The sad leaves, withered, Strew ankle-deep the pathways to our tread. Dry grasses mat the plain, And drifts of blossom slain; And day and night the wind is like a pain. No nightingale to sing In […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. In Blossom Time. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) In Blossom Time It’s O my heart, my heart! To be out in the sun and sing; To sing and shout in the fields about, In the balm and the blossoming. Sing loud, O bird in the tree, O bird, sing […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Longing. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Longing O foolish wisdom sought in books! O aimless fret of household tasks! O chains that bind the hand and mind— A fuller life my spirit asks. For there the grand hills, summer-crown’d, Slope greenly downward to the seas: One hour […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Just for a Day. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Just for a Day JUST for a day to pat my sorrow by! Forget that summer dies, that roses die, And the swift swallow, circling round the eaves, Leaves us with falling leaves. Forget the sky shall lose its gold; the […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. The Day of Our Lord. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) The Day of Our Lord THE chime of many bells upon the air Calling to halls of prayer, And, from the street, A child’s laugh, shrill and sweet, Break in upon my silence, and the thought The day has brought. Christ’s […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Alcatraz. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Alcatraz A pearl-foam at his feet The waters leap and fall; The sentry treads his beat Upon the sun-girt wall. Bronzed of visage, he, Stern, resolute as fate, Guard of the inner sea- Grim Watcher of the Gate. Born of […]
English Poetry. James Elroy Flecker. Brumana. Джеймс Элрой Флеккер.
James Elroy Flecker (Джеймс Элрой Флеккер) Brumana Oh shall I never never be home again! Meadows of England shining in the rain Spread wide your daisied lawns: your ramparts green With briar fortify, with blossom screen Till my far morning–and O streams that slow And pure and deep […]
English Poetry. Lloyd Mifflin. On the Twilight Headland–Theseus and Ariadne. Ллойд Миффлин.
Lloyd Mifflin (Ллойд Миффлин) On the Twilight Headland–Theseus and Ariadne Dear Love, lean nearer–let your finger-tips Reach till they touch the rose within my palm. Through the hushed dusk I feel the fragrant balm Of your faint breathing as the tired breast dips And rises, drowsful as a […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Last Leap. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) The Last Leap All is over! fleet career, Dash of greyhound slipping thongs, Flight of falcon, bound of deer, Mad hoof-thunder in our rear, Cold air rushing up our lungs, Din of many tongues. Once again, one struggle good, One vain […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Ars Longa. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Ars Longa [A Song of Pilgrimage] Our hopes are wild imaginings, Our schemes are airy castles, Yet these, on earth, are lords and kings, And we their slaves and vassals; Your dream, forsooth, of buoyant youth, Most ready to deceive is; […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Wormwood and Nightshade. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Wormwood and Nightshade The troubles of life are many, The pleasures of life are few; When we sat in the sunlight, Annie, I dreamt that the skies were blue— When we sat in the sunlight, Annie, I dreamt that the earth was […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Delilah. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Delilah [From a Picture] The sun has gone down, spreading wide on The sky-line one ray of red fire; Prepare the soft cushions of Sidon, Make ready the rich loom of Tyre. The day, with its toil and its sorrow, Its […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Said the Wind. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) Said the Wind “Come with me,” said the Wind To the ship within the dock “Or dost thou fear the shock Of the ocean-hidden rock, When tempests strike thee full and leave thee blind; And low the inky clouds, Blackly tangle in […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. “The Earth Waxeth Old”. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) “The Earth Waxeth Old” When yellow-lock’d and crystal ey’d I dream’d green woods among; Where tall trees wav’d from side to side, And in their green breasts deep and wide, I saw the building blue jay hide, O, then the earth was […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. “In Exchange for His Soul!”. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) “In Exchange for His Soul!” Long time one whisper’d in his ear– “Give me my strong, pure soul; behold ‘Tis mine to give what men hold dear– The treasure of red gold.” “I bribe thee not with crown and throne, Pale […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. La Bouquetiere. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) La Bouquetiere Buy my roses, citizens,– Here are roses golden white, Like the stars that lovers watch On a purple summer night. Here are roses ruddy red, Here are roses Cupid’s pink; Here are roses like his cheeks– Deeper–like his lips, I […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. The Camp of Souls. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) The Camp of Souls My white canoe, like the silvery air O’er the River of Death that darkly rolls When the moons of the world are round and fair, I paddle back from the “Camp of Souls.” When the wishton-wish in the […]
English Poetry. Arthur William Symons. Amends to Nature. Артур Саймонс (Симонс).
Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) Amends to Nature I have loved colours, and not flowers; Their motion, not the swallows wings; And wasted more than half my hours Without the comradeship of things. How is it, now, that I can see, With love and wonder and […]