English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. My Knowledge Is–. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) My Knowledge Is– My knowledge is, that I am one That never will behold the sun, But only on his image look As a veiled thing that scarcely stirs Under the silent pool-waters, Or tossed beneath a restless brook, Blurred light from blinding glory […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Silence. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Silence Words and the body always have been much pain to me, Little fetters and drags on immensities Never to be defined. I am done with these. Meanings of silence suddenly all grow plain to me. Something still may sing like a joyous […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Revolt. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Revolt I will go riding, riding! away from the cities of men! Into the heart of freedom I will hurl myself with the free! I will race on the sun-swept mountains, I will dive through the rock-hewn glen, I will cleave between hills billowing […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Flower of Youth. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Flower of Youth LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary, God, who made boys for His delight, Stoops in a day of grief and glory And calls them in, in from the night. When they come trooping from the war Our skies have many […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. A Hero. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) A Hero He was so foolish, the poor lad, He made superior people smile Who knew not of the wings he had Budding and growing all the while; Nor that the laurel wreath was made Already for his curly head. Silly and childish […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Turn o’ the Year. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Turn o’ the Year This is the time when bit by bit The days begin to lengthen sweet And every minute gained is joy - And love stirs in the heart of a boy. This is the time the sun, of late Content […]
English Poetry. Arthur William Symons. Magnificat. Артур Саймонс (Симонс).
Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) Magnificat Praise God, who wrought for you and me Your subtle body made for love; God, who from all eternity Willed our divided ways should move Together, and our love should be. I wandered all these years among A world of […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Old Soldier. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Old Soldier Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven, God bids the old soldier they all adored Come to Him and wait for them, clean, new-shriven, A happy doorkeeper in the House of the Lord. Lest it abash them, the strange […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. To Poets. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) To Poets We are the homeless, even as you, Who hope and never can begin. Our hearts are wounded through and through Like yours, but our hearts bleed within. We too make music, but our tones ‘Scape not the barrier of our bones. […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. Peer Gynt. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Peer Gynt When he was young and beautiful and bold We hated him, for he was very strong. But when he came back home again, quite old, And wounded too, we could not hate him long. For kingliness and conquest pranced he […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. Brand. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Brand Thou trod’st the shifting sand path where man’s race is. The print of thy soft sandals is still clear. I too have trodden it those prints a-near, But the sea washes out my tired foot-traces. And all that thou hast healed and […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. German Rain. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) German Rain The heat came down and sapped away my powers. The laden heat came down and drowned my brain, Till through the weight of overcoming hours I felt the rain. Then suddenly I saw what more to see I never thought: […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. Rooks (There is such cry in all these birds). Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Rooks (There is such cry in all these birds) There is such cry in all these birds, More than can ever be express’d; If I should put it into words, You would agree it were not best To wake such wonder […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. The Seekers. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) The Seekers The gates are open on the road That leads to beauty and to God. Perhaps the gates are not so fair, Nor quite so bright as once they were, When God Himself on earth did stand And gave to Abraham […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. The Deserted Bride. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) The Deserted Bride Suggested by a scene in the play of the hunchback. Inscribed to James Sheridan Knowles. “Love me!—No.—He never loved me!” Else he’d sooner die than stain One so fond as he has proved me With the hollow […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Nightmare, and the Next Thing. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Nightmare, and the Next Thing On this decline of Christmas Day The empty street is fogged and blurred: The house-fronts all seem backwise turned As if the outer world were spurned: Voices and songs within are heard, Whence red rays gleam when […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Poet’s Thought. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Poet’s Thought It sprang up out of him in the dark, And took on the lightness of a lark: It went from his chamber along the city strand, Lingered awhile, then leapt all over the land. It came back maimed and […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. From Sunset to Star Rise. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) From Sunset to Star Rise Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not: I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, A silly sheep benighted from the fold, A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot. Take counsel, sever from my lot your […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Countenance. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Countenance Her laugh was not in the middle of her face quite, As a gay laugh springs, It was plain she was anxious about some things I could not trace quite. Her curls were like fir-cones – piled up, brown – Or […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Childhood Among the Ferns. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Childhood Among the Ferns I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea, Where tall-stemmed ferns spread out luxuriantly, And nothing but those tall ferns sheltered me. The rain gained strength, and damped each lopping frond, Ran down their stalks beside me and […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Stoves and Sunshine. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Stoves and Sunshine Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea— The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough for me! I’ve done the grand for fourteen months in every foreign clime, And I’ve learned a heap of learning, […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. My Playmates. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) My Playmates The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool— Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool; It brings me soothing fancies of the homestead on the hill, And I hear the thrush’s evening song and the robin’s morning […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. The Dreams. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) The Dreams Two dreams came down to earth one night From the realm of mist and dew; One was a dream of the old, old days, And one was a dream of the new. One was a dream of a shady lane That […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Uhland’s “Chapel”. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Uhland’s “Chapel” Yonder stands the hillside chapel Mid the evergreens and rocks, All day long it hears the song Of the shepherd to his flocks. Then the chapel bell goes tolling— Knelling for a soul that’s sped; Silent and sad the shepherd lad […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. A Heine Love Song. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) A Heine Love Song The image of the moon at night All trembling in the ocean lies, But she, with calm and steadfast light, Moves proudly through the radiant skies, How like the tranquil moon thou art— Thou fairest flower of womankind! And, […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Ben Apfelgarten. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Ben Apfelgarten There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago, And he was very fortunate in being very bald And so was very happy he was so. He warbled all the day Such songs […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. A Ballad of Marjorie. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) A Ballad of Marjorie “What ails you that you look so pale, O fisher of the sea?” “’Tis for a mournful tale I own, Fair maiden Marjorie.” “What is the dreary tale to tell, O toiler of the sea?” “I cast […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. The Fairy Changeling. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) The Fairy Changeling Dermod O’Byrne of Omah town In his garden strode up and down; He pulled his beard, and he beat his breast; And this is his trouble and woe confessed: “The good-folk came in the night, and they Have […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. My Friend. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) My Friend Two days ago with dancing glancing hair, With living lips and eyes: Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies; So pale, yet still so fair. We have not left her yet, not yet alone; But soon must leave her where […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Echoes. 46. Matri DilectissimÆ. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Echoes. 46. Matri DilectissimÆ I. M. In the waste hour Between to-day and yesterday We watched, while on my arm— Living flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone— Dabbled in sweat the sacred head Lay uncomplaining, still, contemptuous, strange: Till […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Echoes. 41. The Spirit of Wine. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Echoes. 41. The Spirit of Wine To R. A. M. S. The Spirit of Wine Sang in my glass, and I listened With love to his odorous music, His flushed and magnificent song. —‘I am health, I am heart, I […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Echoes. 34. Life in Her Creaking Shoes. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Echoes. 34. Life in Her Creaking Shoes To K. de M. Love blows as the wind blows, Love blows into the heart.—Nile Boat-Song. Life in her creaking shoes Goes, and more formal grows, A round of calls and cues: Love […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Echoes. 28. Blithe Dreams Arise to Greet Us. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Echoes. 28. Blithe Dreams Arise to Greet Us To S. C. Blithe dreams arise to greet us, And life feels clean and new, For the old love comes to meet us In the dawning and the dew. O’erblown with sunny shadows, […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Echoes. 17. The Sands Are Alive with Sunshine. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Echoes. 17. The Sands Are Alive with Sunshine The sands are alive with sunshine, The bathers lounge and throng, And out in the bay a bugle Is lilting a gallant song. The clouds go racing eastward, The blithe wind cannot rest, […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Echoes. 22. The West a Glimmering Lake of Light. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Echoes. 22. The West a Glimmering Lake of Light The West a glimmering lake of light, A dream of pearly weather, The first of stars is burning white— The star we watch together. Is April dead? The unresting year Will shape us […]
English Poetry. Walter Raleigh. The Silent Lover. Уолтер Рэли. Безмолвствующий влюбленный
Walter Raleigh (Уолтер Рэли) The Silent Lover PASSIONS are liken’d best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, […]
English Poetry. Countee Cullen. The Wakeupworld. Каунти Каллен.
Countee Cullen (Каунти Каллен) The Wakeupworld This is the song of the Wakeupworld, The beautiful beast with long tail curled: “Wake up, O World; O World, awake! The light is bright on hill and lake; O World, awake; wake up, O World! The flags of the wind […]
English Poetry. Countee Cullen. Nocturne. Каунти Каллен.
Countee Cullen (Каунти Каллен) Nocturne Tell me all things false are true, Bitter sweet, that fools are wise; I will not doubt nor question you; I am in a mood for lies. Tell me all things ill turn good; Thew and sinew will be stronger Thriving on […]
English Poetry. Countee Cullen. Karenge Ya Marenge. Каунти Каллен.
Countee Cullen (Каунти Каллен) Karenge Ya Marenge Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Invests one speech with haloed eminence, Makes it the sesame for all doors shut, Yet in its like sees but impertinence? Is it the hue? Is it the cast of eye, The curve of […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Three Seasons. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) Three Seasons ‘A cup for hope!’ she said, In springtime ere the bloom was old: The crimson wine was poor and cold By her mouth’s richer red. ‘A cup for love!’ how low, How soft the words; and all the […]