English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Launch. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Launch Forth, to the alien gravity, Forth, to the laws of ocean, we Builders on earth by laws of land Entrust this creature of our hand Upon the calculated sea. Fast bound to shore we cling, we creep, And make our ship […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Courts. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Courts A FIGURE OF THE EPIPHANY The poet’s imageries are noble ways, Approaches to a plot, an open shrine. Their splendours, colours, avenues, arrays, Their courts that run with wine; Beautiful similes, “fair and flagrant things,” Enriched, enamouring,—raptures, metaphors Enhancing life, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The First Snow. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The First Snow Not yet was winter come to earth’s soft floor, The tideless wave, the warm white road, the shore, The serried town whose small street tortuously Led darkling to the dazzling sea. Not yet to breathing man, not to his song, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. Maternity. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) Maternity One wept whose only child was dead, New-born, ten years ago. “Weep not; he is in bliss,” they said. She answered, “Even so, “Ten years ago was born in pain A child, not now forlorn. But oh, ten years ago, in vain, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. In Manchester Square. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) In Manchester Square (In Memoriam T.H.) The paralytic man has dropped in death The crossing-sweeper’s brush to which he clung, One-handed, twisted, dwarfed, scanted of breath, Although his hair was young. I saw this year the winter vines of France, Dwarfed, twisted, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Battle Hymn of the Women. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Battle Hymn of the Women They are waking, they are waking, In the east, and in the west; They are throwing wide their windows to the sun; And they see the dawn is breaking, And they quiver with unrest, For they know their […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Barbarous Chief. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Barbarous Chief There was a kingdom known as the Mind, A kingdom vast as fair, And the brave king, Brain, had the right to reign, In royal splendor there. Oh! that was a beautiful, beautiful land, Which unto this king was given; […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain) I love the tropics, where sun and rain Go forth together, a joyous train To hold up the green, gay side of the world, And to keep earth’s banners of bloom unfurled. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Awakened!. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Awakened! Slowly the People waken; they have been, Like weary soldiers, sleeping in their tents, While traitors tiptoed through the silent camp Intent on plunder. Suddenly a sound– A careless movement of too bold a thief– Starts one dull sleeper; then another stirs, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. At the Fork of the Road. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) At the Fork of the Road At the fork of the road the turrets rise Of the Half-way House to Paradise; At the end of the path where we meet our dead, And we rest there a while ere we forge ahead. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. At the Boro Boedoer. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) At the Boro Boedoer Watching the dawn upon its turrets break (New beauties leaping to each ray of light), Methought I heard Christ calling (as one might Call to an older brother): “Buddha, wake! Come toil with me. From thy calm eyelids shake […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. A Dream of November. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) A Dream of November Far, far away, I know not where, I know not how, The skies are grey, the boughs are bare, bare boughs in flower: Long lilac silk is softly drawn from bough to bough, With flowers of milk and buds […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. Alere Flammam. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) Alere Flammam To A. C. B. In ancient Rome, the secret fire,— An intimate and holy thing,— Was guarded by a tender choir Of kindred maidens in a ring; Deep, deep within the house it lay, No stranger ever gazed thereon, But, […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. To a Child. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) To a Child E. T. G. Thou hast the colors of the spring, The gold of kingcups triumphing, The blue of wood-bells wild; But winter thoughts thy spirit fill, And thou art wandering from us still, Too young to be our child. […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Dream Land. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) Dream Land Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot. She left the rosy […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. The Mænad’s Grave. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) The Mænad’s Grave The girl who once, on Lydian heights, Around the sacred grove of pines, Would dance through whole tempestuous nights Where no moon shines, Whose pipe of lotos featly blown Gave airs as shrill as Cotys’ own, Who, crowned with […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. Greece and England. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) Greece and England Would this sunshine be completer, Or these violets smell sweeter, Or the birds sing more in metre, If it all were years ago, When the melted mountain-snow Heard in Enna all the woe Of the poor forlorn […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. The Bath. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) The Bath With rosy palms against her bosom pressed, To stay the shudder that she dreads of old, Lysidice glides down, till silver-cold The water girdles half her glowing breast: A yellow butterfly in flowery quest Rifles the roses that her tresses hold: […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. At the Play. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) At the Play Dora seated at the play Weeps to see the hero perish, — Hero of a Dresden day, Fit for china nymphs to cherish; O that Dora’s heart would be Half so soft and warm for me! When the […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Almost!. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Almost! Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago. Emily Elizabeth […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Glee! The Great Storm Is Over!. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * Glee! The great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls, — Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Rouge Gagne. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Rouge Gagne ‘T is so much joy! ‘T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victory! Life is but […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Ghost of Yesterday. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Ghost of Yesterday THERE is a house beside a way, Where dwells a ghost of Yesterday: The old face of a beauty, faded, Looks from its garden: and the shaded Long walks of locust-trees, that seem Forevermore to sigh and dream, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Wind Witch. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Wind Witch THE wind that met her in the park, Came hurrying to my side— It ran to me, it leapt to me, And nowhere would abide. It whispered in my ear a word, So sweet a word, I swear, It […]
English Poetry. Arthur William Symons. Clair de Lune. Артур Саймонс (Симонс).
Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) Clair de Lune In the moonlit room your face, Moonlight-coloured, fainting white, And the silence of the place Round about us in the night, And my arms are round about you In the silence of the night. Lips that are not […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Here Is the Place Where Loveliness Keeps House. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) * * * Here is the place where Loveliness keeps house, Between the river and the wooded hills, Within a valley where the Springtime spills Her firstling wind-flowers under blossoming boughs: Where Summer sits braiding her warm, white brows With bramble-roses; and […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Land of Candy. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Land of Candy I There was once a little boy — So my father told me — who Never cared for any toy, But just sweet things, as boys do, Cakes and comfits, cream and ice, All the things that […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Aubade. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Aubade Awake! the dawn is on the hills! Behold, at her cool throat a rose, Blue-eyed and beautiful she goes, Leaving her steps in daffodils.— Awake! arise! and let me see Thine eyes, whose deeps epitomize All dawns that were or are […]
English Poetry. George Henry Borrow. Miscellanies. Джордж Генри Борроу.
George Henry Borrow (Джордж Генри Борроу) Miscellanies CANTATA. This is Denmark’s holyday; Dance, ye maidens! Sing, ye men! Tune, ye harpers! Blush, ye heroes! This is Denmark’s holyday. ONE VOICE. In right’s enjoyment, in the arm of love, Beneath the olive’s shadow, The Daneman sat; […]
English Poetry. George Henry Borrow. The Elder-Witch. Джордж Генри Борроу.
George Henry Borrow (Джордж Генри Борроу) The Elder-Witch According to the Danish tradition, there is a female Elf in the elder tree, which she leaves every midnight; and, having strolled among the fields, returns to it before morning. Though tall the oak, and firm its stem, Though […]
English Poetry. George Henry Borrow. Waldemar’s Chase. Джордж Генри Борроу.
George Henry Borrow (Джордж Генри Борроу) Waldemar’s Chase The following Ballad is merely a versification of one of the many feats of Waldemar, the famed phantom hunter of the North, an account of whom, and of Palnatoka and Groon the Jutt, both spectres of a similar character, may […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. A Boost for Modern Methods. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) A Boost for Modern Methods In some respects the old days were perhaps ahead of these, Before we got to wanting wealth and costly luxuries; Perhaps the world was happier then, I’m not the one to say, But when it’s zero weather […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. As It Goes. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) As It Goes In the corner she’s left the mechanical toy, On the chair is her Teddy Bear fine; The things that I thought she would really enjoy Don’t seem to be quite in her line. There’s the flaxen-haired doll that is […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Curly Locks. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Curly Locks Curly locks, what do you know of the world, And what do your brown eyes see? Has your baby mind been able to find One thread of the mystery? Do you know of the sorrow and pain that lie In […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Father. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Father My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us children every day Just what should now be done. He knows the way to fix the trusts, He has a simple plan; But if the furnace needs […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Dennis Shand. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Dennis Shand THE shadows fall along the wall, It’s night at Haye-la-Serre; The maidens weave since day grew eve, The lady’s in her chair. O passing slow the long hours go With time to think and sigh, When weary maidens weave beneath […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Lemon Pie. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Lemon Pie The world is full of gladness, There are joys of many kinds, There’s a cure for every sadness, That each troubled mortal finds. And my little cares grow lighter And I cease to fret and sigh, And my eyes with […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. My Land. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) My Land My land is where the kind folks are, And where the friends are true, Where comrades brave will travel far Some kindly deed to do. My land is where the smiles are bright And where the speech is sweet, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Reward. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Reward Don’t want medals on my breast, Don’t want all the glory, I’m not worrying greatly lest The world won’t hear my story. A chance to dream beside a stream Where fish are biting free; A day or two, ‘neath skies of […]