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English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Race Of Banquo. Роберт Саути.

Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Race Of Banquo Fly, son of Banquo! Fleance, fly! Leave thy guilty sire to die. O’er the heath the stripling fled, The wild storm howling round his head. Fear mightier thro’ the shades of night Urged his feet, and wing’d his flight; And […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Marriage-Table. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Marriage-Table THERE was a marriage-table where One sate, Haply, unnoticed, till they craved His aid: Thenceforward does it seem that He has made All virtuous marriage-tables consecrate: And so, at this, where without pomp or state We sit, and only say, […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Word in Season. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Word in Season “THIS is a day the Lord hath made.”–Thus spake The good religious heart, unstained, unworn, Watching the golden glory of the morn.– Since, on each happy day that came to break Like sunlight o’er this silent life of […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A German Student’s Funeral Hymn. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A German Student’s Funeral Hymn WITH steady march across the daisy meadow, And by the churchyard wall we go; But leave behind, beneath the linden shadow, One, who no more will rise and go: Farewell, our brother, here sleeping in dust, Till […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Child’s Smile. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Child’s Smile A CHILD’S smile–nothing more; Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen; Like summer lightning o’er, Leaving the little face again serene. I think, boy well-beloved, Thine angel, who did grieve to see how far Thy childhood is […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The Unknown Country. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The Unknown Country “WHERE is the unknown country?” I whispered sad and slow,– “The strange and awful country To which I soon must go, must go, To which I soon must go?” Out of the unknown country A voice sang soft […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Lancashire Doxology. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Lancashire Doxology “PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow.” Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe. The Lord who takes, — the Lord who gives, — O praise Him, all that dies, and lives. He opens and He shuts his […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Mortality. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Mortality “And we shall be changed.””And we shall be changed.” Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey, Pressed each to each in tender fold, And peacefully thus, day by day, Returning to their mould; Brown leaves, that with aerial grace Slip from your […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The House of Clay. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The House of Clay THERE was a house, a house of clay, Wherein the inmate sat all day, Merry and poor; For Hope sat with her, heart to heart, Fond and kind, fond and kind, Vowing he never would depart, — […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. “Philip, My King”. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) “Philip, My King” Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my king! Round whom the enshadowing purple lies Of babyhood’s royal dignities. Lay on my neck thy tiny hand With love’s invisible scepter laden; I am thine Esther to command […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Only a Woman. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Only a Woman As grass grows taller round a stone.” Coventry Patmore. SO, the truth’s out. I ‘ll grasp it like a snake, — It will not slay me. My heart shall not break Awhile, if only for the […]

English Poetry. Robert Southey. Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin. Роберт Саути.

Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin Poussin! most pleasantly thy pictur’d scenes Beguile the lonely hour; I sit and gaze With lingering eye, till charmed FANCY makes The lovely landscape live, and the rapt soul From the foul haunts of herded humankind Flies […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Green Things Growing. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Green Things Growing O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing. […]

English Poetry. Walter Savage Landor. Tell Me Not Things Past All Belief. Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор.

Walter Savage Landor (Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор) * * * Tell me not things past all belief; One truth in you I prove; The flame of anger, bright and brief, Sharpens the barb of Love. Walter Savage Landor’s other poems: Ternissa! You Are Fled! To Barry Cornwall The Gates […]

English Poetry. Walter Savage Landor. Here, Ever Since You Went Abroad.

* * * Here, ever since you went abroad, If there be change, no change I see, I only walk our wonted road, The road is only walkt by me. Yes; I forgot; a change there is; Was it of _that_ you bade me tell? I catch at times, at […]

English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. The Ballad of Lager Bier. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.

Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) The Ballad of Lager Bier In fallow college days, Tom Harland, ⁠We both have known the ways of Yale, And talked of many a nigh and far land, ⁠O’er many a famous tap of ale. There still they sing their Gaudeamus, ⁠And […]

English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Bohemia. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.

Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Bohemia A PILGRIMAGE I When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sang, ’tis best to wed: So all for love we paired in Spring— Blanche and I—ere youth had sped, For Autumn’s wealth brings Autumn’s wane. Sworn fealty to royal […]

English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Fuit Ilium. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.

Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Fuit Ilium One by one they died,— ⁠Last of all their race; Nothing left but pride, ⁠⁠Lace, and buckled hose. Their quietus made, ⁠On their dwelling-place Ruthless hands are laid: ⁠⁠Down the old house goes! See the ancient manse ⁠Meet its […]

English Poetry. Edward Rowland Sill. A Prayer. Эдвард Роулэнд Силл.

Edward Rowland Sill (Эдвард Роулэнд Силл) A Prayer O GOD, our Father, if we had but truth! Lost truth—which thou perchance Didst let man lose, lest all his wayward youth He waste in song and dance; That he might gain, in searching, mightier powers For manlier use […]

English Poetry. Edward Rowland Sill. A Bird’s Song. Эдвард Роулэнд Силл.

Edward Rowland Sill (Эдвард Роулэнд Силл) A Bird’s Song THE shadow of a bird On the shadow of a bough; Sweet and clear his song is heard, “Seek me now—I seek thee now.” The bird swings out of reach in the swaying tree, But his shadow on the […]

English Poetry. Edward Rowland Sill. Moods. Эдвард Роулэнд Силл.

Edward Rowland Sill (Эдвард Роулэнд Силл) Moods DAWN has blossomed: the sun is nigh: Pearl and rose in the wimpled sky, Rose and pearl on a brightening blue: (She is true, and she is true!) The noonday lies all warm and still And calm, and over sleeping […]

English Poetry. Robert Southey. To the Chapel Bell. Роберт Саути.

Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) To the Chapel Bell “Lo I, the man who erst the Muse did ask Her deepest notes to swell the Patriot’s meeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter task For cap and gown to leave my minstrel weeds,” For yon dull noise that tinkles […]

English Poetry. Paul Hamilton Hayne. A New Philosophy; or, Star Showers Explained. Пол Гамильтон Хейн.

Paul Hamilton Hayne (Пол Гамильтон Хейн) A New Philosophy; or, Star Showers Explained ONE luminous night in winter, All crystal clear and still, A band of wondering children Were grouped by the window sill. The window looked out northward, Where through the tranquil hours The stars kept […]

English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. The Vigil. Генри Ньюболт.

Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) The Vigil England! where the sacred flame Burns before the inmost shrine, Where the lips that love thy name Consecrate their hopes and thine, Where the banners of thy dead Weave their shadows overhead, Watch beside thine arms to-night, Pray that God defend the […]

English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. The Non-Combatant. Генри Ньюболт.

Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) The Non-Combatant Among a race high-handed, strong of heart, Sea-rovers, conquerors, builders in the waste, He had his birth; a nature too complete, Eager and doubtful, no man’s soldier sworn And no man’s chosen captain; born to fail, A name without an echo: yet […]

English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. Ionicus. Генри Ньюболт.

Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) Ionicus With failing feet and shoulders bowed Beneath the weight of happier days, He lagged among the heedless crowd, Or crept along suburban ways. But still through all his heart was young, His mood a joy that nought could mar, A courage, a pride, […]

English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. The Gay Gordons. Генри Ньюболт.

Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) The Gay Gordons (Dargai, October 20, 1897) Whos for the Gathering, who’s for the Fair? (Gay goes the Gordon to a fight) The bravest of the brave are at deadlock there, (Highlanders! march! by the right!) There are bullets by the hundred buzzing […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. To a Beautiful Woman. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) To a Beautiful Woman SURELY, dame Nature made you in some dream Of old-world women–Chriemhild, or bright Aslauga, or Boadicea fierce and fair, Or Berengaria as she rose, her lips Yet ruddy from the poison that anoints Her memory still, the queen […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Labor Is Prayer. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Labor Is Prayer LABORARE est orare: We, black-visaged sons of toil, From the coal-mine and the anvil And the delving of the soil,– From the loom, the wharf, the warehouse, And the ever-whirling mill, Out of grim and hungry silence Raise a […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Plighted. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Plighted Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love’s sake, – as mine to thee. Duty’s a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Westward Ho!. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Westward Ho! We should not sit us down and sigh, My girl, whose brow a fane appears, Whose steadfast eyes look royally Backwards and forwards o’er the years– The long, long years of conquered time, The possible years unwon, that slope […]

English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A True Hero. Дина Мария Крейк.

Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A True Hero JAMES BRAIDWOOD: Died June 22, 1861. NOT at the battle front,–writ of in story; Not on the blazing wreck steering to glory; Not while in martyr-pangs soul and flesh sever, Died he–this Hero new; hero forever. […]