English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Call. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Call Joy stands on the hilltops, Beckoning to me, Urging me to journey Up where I can see Blue skies ever smiling, Cool green fields below, Hear the songs of children Still untouched by woe. Joy stands on the hilltops, Urging […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Job. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Job The job will not make you, my boy; The job will not bring you to fame Or riches or honor or joy Or add any weight to your name. You may fail or succeed where you are, May honestly serve […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Truth about Envy. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Truth about Envy I like to see the flowers grow, To see the pansies in a row; I think a well-kept garden’s fine, And wish that such a one were mine; But one can’t have a stock of flowers Unless he […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Who Is Your Boss?. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Who Is Your Boss? “I work for someone else,” he said; “I have no chance to get ahead. At night I leave the job behind; At morn I face the same old grind. And everything I do by day Just brings to […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. Two Moods of Failure. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) Two Moods of Failure I THE LAST CUP OF CANARY Sir Harry Lovelock, 1645 So, the powder’s low, and the larder’s clean, And surrender drapes, with its black impending, All the stage for a sorry and sullen scene: Yet […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. Madonna Pia. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) Madonna Pia Ricordati di me, che son la Pia. Siena mi fe; disfecomi Maremma; Salsi colui, che, inanellata pria, Disposato m’avea colla sua gemma. Purgatorio, Canto V. To westward lies the unseen sea, Blue sea the live winds wander o’er. […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. Ivo of Chartres. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) Ivo of Chartres Now may it please my lord, Louis the king, Lily of Christ and France! riding his quest, I, Bishop Ivo, saw a wondrous thing. There was no light of sun left in the west, And slowly did the […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Honeysuckle. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The Honeysuckle I PLUCKED a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 44. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 44 Cruel fair love, I justly do complain Of too much rigor and thy heart unkind, That for mine eyes thou hast my body slain, And would not grant that I should favour find. I looked, fair love, and […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 5. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 5 Love with her hair my love by force hath tied, To serve her lips, her eyes, her voice, her hand; I smiled for joy, when I the boy espied To lie unchained and live at her command. She […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 52. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 52 O sugared talk, wherewith my thoughts do live! O brows, love’s trophy and my senses’ shine! O charming smiles, that death or life can give! O heavenly kisses from a mouth divine! O wreaths too strong, and trammels […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 22. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 22 I might have died before my life begun, Whenas my father for his country’s good The Persian’s favor and the Sophey won And yet with danger of his dearest blood. Thy father, sweet, whom danger did beset, Escapéd […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 49. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 49 If that I die, fair Licia, with disdain, Or heartless live surpriséd with thy wrong, Then heavens and earth shall accent both my pain, And curse the time so cruel and so long. If you be kind, my […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 43. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 43 Are those two stars, her eyes, my life’s light gone, By which my soul was freéd from all dark? And am I left distressed to live alone, Where none my tears and mournful tale shall mark? Ah sun, […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 18. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 18 I swear, fair Licia, still for to be thine, By heart, by eyes, by what I held most dear; Thou checked mine oath, and said: these were not mine, And that I had no right by them to […]
English Poetry. Giles Fletcher the Elder. Licia Sonnets 37. Джайлз Флетчер Старший.
Giles Fletcher the Elder (Джайлз Флетчер Старший) Licia Sonnets 37 I speak, fair Licia, what my torments be, But then my speech too partial do I find; For hardly words can with those thoughts agree, Those thoughts that swarm in such a troubled mind. Then do I vow […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. The Birth of Love. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) The Birth of Love God made the world and found it ‘good’. An Angel Him beside Wept softly, and, to question, said ‘For what Thou hast denied.’ ‘And that? ’ God asked him tenderly, ‘What is the lack thereof? ’ ‘Its […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. While Lilies Bud and Blow. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) * * * While lilies bud and blow, While roses grow, And trees wave greenly in the sun — Wave greenly to and fro; And ring-doves coo and coo, And skies drop dew, And th’ throstle pipes above the nest His wee […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Winter. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Winter How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree! A swarm of such, three little months ago, Had hidden in the leaves and let none know Save by the outburst of their minstrelsy. A white flake here and there—a snow-lily Of […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. A Hope. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) A Hope IT befell me on a day — Long ago; ah, long ago! When my life was in its May, In the May – month of the year. All the orchards were like snow With pink – flushes there and here; […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Unbound. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Unbound J. F. B. DIED APRIL 29, 1883. FORTH from this low estate, Fetterless now of fate, Pass, spirit blest! Out of the cark and care, Out of the griefs that were, Into thy rest. Done with the dreary round […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Love-Song. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Love-Song A BIRD flies over the sea, — Over the golden sea, With a message from me to thee, O my belovëd! Swift to thy lattice bar, My life, my belovëd, Under the morning-star He shall rest where my soul-thoughts are, […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Memorial Poem. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Memorial Poem WRITTEN FOR THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, DECORATION DAY, 1881. THE sea-tides ebb and flow; The seasons come and go, Summer and sun succeed the cloud and snow, And April rain awakes the […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. The Captive of the White City. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) The Captive of the White City FLOWER of the foam of the waves Of the beautiful inland sea, — White as the foam that laves The ships of the Sea-Kings past, — Marvel of human hands, Wonderful, mystical, vast, The great White […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. In the Grand Cañon. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) In the Grand Cañon THE strongholds these of those strange, mighty gods Who walked the earth before man’s feeble race, And, passing hence to their unknown abodes In farther worlds, left here their awful trace. Turrets, and battlements, and toppling towers, That […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. Helen Hunt Jackson. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) Helen Hunt Jackson WHAT songs found voice upon those lips, What magic dwelt within the pen, Whose music into silence slips, Whose spell lives not again! For her the clamorous to-day The dreamful yesterday became; The brands upon dead hearths […]
English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. California. Ина Донна Кулбрит.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит) California Was it the sigh and shiver of the leaves? Was it the murmer of the meadow brook, That in and out the reeds and water weeds Slipped silverly, and on their tremulous keys Uttered her many melodies? Or voice Of the […]
English Poetry. Lloyd Mifflin. Sesostris. Ллойд Миффлин.
Lloyd Mifflin (Ллойд Миффлин) Sesostris Sole Lord of Lords and very King of Kings, He sits within the desert, carved in stone; Inscrutable, colossal, and alone, And ancienter than memory of things. Graved on his front the sacred beetle clings; Disdain sits on his lips; and in a […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 5. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 5 Said the high hill, in the morning: “Look on me— “Behold, sweet earth, sweet sister sky, behold “The red flames on my peaks, and how my pines “Are cressets of pure gold; my quarried […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Insomnia. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Insomnia Thin are the night-skirts left behind By daybreak hours that onward creep, And thin, alas! the shred of sleep That wavers with the spirit’s wind: But in half-dreams that shift and roll And still remember and forget, My soul this hour […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 2. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 2 The South Wind laid his moccasins aside, Broke his gay calumet of flow’rs, and cast His useless wampum, beaded with cool dews, Far from him, northward; his long, ruddy spear Flung sunward, whence it […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 7. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 7 Again rang out the music of the axe, And on the slope, as in his happy dreams, The home of Max with wealth of drooping vines On the rude walls; and in the trellis’d […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs Oh, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirr’d And rustled by the scented breath of spring; Oh, the dreary wistful longing! Oh, the faces that are thronging! Oh, the voices that are vaguely whispering! Oh, tell […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Song of the Surf. Адам Линдсей Гордон. Песнь прибоя
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) The Song of the Surf White steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roar On the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom’s length from the shore, Is there never a seer nor sophist can interpret your wild refrain, […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Cui Bono. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Cui Bono Oh! wind that whistles o’er thorns and thistles, Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf; Why should he labour to help his neighbour Who feels too reckless to help himself? The wail of the breeze in the bending trees […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Never-Known. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Never-Known O Never-Known, it may be Never-to-Know, You are the murmur of colour in the East When upon twilit clouds faint ghosts of sunset Sigh from the Western rose-gardens. Or the thin rippled tune Of imperceptible Æolian harps Swept by a wind out […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 3. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part 3 The great farm house of Malcolm Graem stood Square shoulder’d and peak roof’d upon a hill, With many windows looking everywhere; So that no distant meadow might lie hid, Nor corn-field hide its gold—nor […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Wild Hyacinth. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Wild Hyacinth Delicate tangle of beauty that flows from the bowl of the May-green wood Leading the lingering heart out of love in a transport to tremulous tears, When the West wind runs a luminous wave through your bells and your sensitive spears It […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Sonnet (About the house go terrible winds in flight). Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Sonnet (About the house go terrible winds in flight) About the house go terrible winds in flight, Out of the hiss and wash of sleepless seas Half-drowning voices scream wild messages Into the hungry belly of the night, And icy-breasted clouds conceal the white […]
English Poetry. Alexander Pope. Summer. Александр Поуп.
Alexander Pope (Александр Поуп) Summer See what delights in sylvan scenes appear! Descending Gods have found Elysium here. In woods bright Venus with Adonis stray’d, And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Come lovely nymph, and bless the silent hours, When swains from shearing seek their nightly bow’rs; […]