English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Lost Lagoon. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Lost Lagoon It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon, And we two dreaming the dusk away, Beneath the drift of a twilight grey, Beneath the drowse of an ending day, And the curve of a golden moon. It is dark […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Ballad of Yaada. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Ballad of Yaada (A LEGEND OF THE PACIFIC COAST) There are fires on Lulu Island, and the sky is opalescent With the pearl and purple tinting from the smouldering of peat. And the Dream Hills lift their summits in a […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Cattle Country. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Cattle Country Up the dusk-enfolded prairie, Foot-falls, soft and sly, Velvet cushioned, wild and wary, Then – the coyote’s cry. Rush of hoofs, and roar and rattle, Beasts of blood and breed, Twenty thousand frightened cattle, Then – the wild […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The King’s Consort. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The King’s Consort I Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone, You took in yours my hands, And placed me close beside you on the throne Of Oriental lands? The truant hour came back at dawn to-day, Across the hemispheres, […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Man in Chrysanthemum Land. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Man in Chrysanthemum Land WRITTEN FOR “THE SPECTATOR” There’s a brave little berry-brown man At the opposite side of the earth; Of the White, and the Black, and the Tan, He’s the smallest in compass and girth. O! he’s little, […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Art of Alma-Tadema. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Art of Alma-Tadema There is no song his colours cannot sing, For all his art breathes melody, and tunes The fine, keen beauty that his brushes bring To murmuring marbles and to golden Junes. The music of those marbles you […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. His Prayer for Absolution. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) His Prayer for Absolution For those my unbaptized rhymes, Writ in my wild unhallowed times, For every sentence, clause, and word, That’s not inlaid with Thee, my Lord, Forgive me, God, and blot each line Out of my book, that is not Thine. […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Prairie Greyhounds. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Prairie Greyhounds C.P.R. “NO. 1,” WESTBOUND I swing to the sunset land - The world of prairie, the world of plain, The world of promise and hope and gain, The world of gold, and the world of grain, And the world […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Pilot of the Plains. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Pilot of the Plains “False,” they said, “thy Pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn; Rise and wed thy Redskin wooer, nobler warrior ne’er was born; Cease thy watching, cease thy dreaming, Show the white thine Indian scorn.” Thus […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Thistle-Down. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Thistle-Down Beyond a ridge of pine with russet tips The west lifts to the sun her longing lips, Her blushes stain with gold and garnet dye The shore, the river and the wide far sky; Like floods of wine the […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. The Vagabonds. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) The Vagabonds What saw you in your flight to-day, Crows, awinging your homeward way? Went you far in carrion quest, Crows, that worry the sunless west? Thieves and villains, you shameless things! Black your record as black your wings. […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Under Canvas – in Muskoka. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Under Canvas – in Muskoka Lichens of green and grey on every side; And green and grey the rocks beneath our feet; Above our heads the canvas stretching wide; And over all, enchantment rare and sweet. Fair Rosseau slumbers in an […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Where Leaps the Ste. Marie. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Where Leaps the Ste. Marie I What dream you in the night-time When you whisper to the moon? What say you in the morning? What do you sing at noon? When I hear your voice uplifting, Like a breeze through branches […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Workworn. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Workworn Across the street, an humble woman lives; To her ’tis little fortune ever gives; Denied the wines of life, it puzzles me To know how she can laugh so cheerily. This morn I listened to her softly sing, And, marvelling what […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Ojistoh. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Ojistoh I am Ojistoh, I am she, the wife Of him whose name breathes bravery and life And courage to the tribe that calls him chief. I am Ojistoh, his white star, and he Is land, and lake, and sky – and […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Lullaby of the Iroquois. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Lullaby of the Iroquois Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest, Wrapped in your nest, Strapped in your nest, Your straight little cradle-board rocks you to rest; Its hands are your nest; Its bands are your nest; It swings from the down-bending […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Lady Icicle. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Lady Icicle Little Lady Icicle is dreaming in the north-land And gleaming in the north-land, her pillow all a-glow; For the frost has come and found her With an ermine robe around her Where little Lady Icicle lies dreaming in the snow. […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. A Hymn to Venus and Cupid. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) A Hymn to Venus and Cupid Sea-born goddess, let me be By thy son thus graced, and thee, That whene’er I woo, I find Virgins coy, but not unkind. Let me, when I kiss a maid, Taste her lips, so overlaid With love’s […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Golden – of the Selkirks. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Golden – of the Selkirks A trail upwinds from Golden; It leads to a land God only knows, To the land of eternal frozen snows, That trail unknown and olden. And they tell a tale that is strange and wild - […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. In the Shadows. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) In the Shadows I am sailing to the leeward, Where the current runs to seaward Soft and slow, Where the sleeping river grasses Brush my paddle as it passes To and fro. On the shore the heat is shaking All the […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Guard of the Eastern Gate. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Guard of the Eastern Gate Halifax sits on her hills by the sea In the might of her pride, - Invincible, terrible, beautiful, she With a sword at her side. To right and to left of her, battlements rear And fortresses […]
English Poetry. Emily Pauline Johnson. Fire-Flowers. Эмили Полин Джонсон.
Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон) Fire-Flowers And only where the forest fires have sped, Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands, A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head, And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed, It hides the scars with almost human hands. And only to the […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). In Memory of John Fairfax. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). In Memory of John Fairfax Because this man fulfilled his days, Like one who walks with steadfast gaze Averted from forbidden ways With lures of fair, false flowerage deep, Behold the Lord whose throne is dim With fires of […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Bob. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Bob Singer of songs of the hills— Dreamer, by waters unstirred, Back in a valley of rills, Home of the leaf and the bird!— Read in this fall of the year Just the compassionate phrase, Faded with traces of […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Songs from the Mountains (1880). Billy Vickers. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Songs from the Mountains (1880). Billy Vickers No song is this of leaf and bird, And gracious waters flowing; I’m sick at heart, for I have heard Big Billy Vickers “blowing”. He’d never take a leading place In chambers legislative: This booby with […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Daniel Henry Deniehy. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Daniel Henry Deniehy Take the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings: Wind and wood shall help to wail him, waves and mournful mountain-springs. Take the harp, but very softly, for the friend who grew so […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Safi. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Safi Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, Through the dazzle and whirl of a race, And the earth, raying up in confusion, Like a sea thundered under his face! And the earth, raying up in confusion, Passed flying […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Euterpe. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). Euterpe Child of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me, Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of the sea? Down amongst the hills of tempest, where the elves of tumult roam— Blown […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Delight in Disorder. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Delight in Disorder A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction; An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher; A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbons to flow […]
English Poetry. Henry Kendall. Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). The Glen of Arrawatta. Генри Кендалл.
Henry Kendall (Генри Кендалл) Leaves from Australian Forests (1869). The Glen of Arrawatta A sky of wind! And while these fitful gusts Are beating round the windows in the cold, With sullen sobs of rain, behold I shape A settler’s story of the wild old times: One told […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Sisters of Mine. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Sisters of Mine Sisters, sisters of mine, have we done what we could In all the old ways, through all the new days, To better the race and to make life sweet and good? Have we played the full part that was ours […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Secret Thoughts. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Secret Thoughts I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results—or ill. That which we call our secret thought Speeds to the earth’s remotest […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Motherhood. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Motherhood At times I am the mother of the world; And mine seem all its sorrows, and its fears. That rose, which in each mother-heart is curled, The rose of pity, opens with my tears, And, waking in the night, I lie and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Moorish Maid. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Moorish Maid Above her veil a shrouded Moorish maid Showed melting eyes, as limpid as a lake; A brow untouched by care; a band of jetty hair, And nothing more. The all-concealing haik Fell to her high arched instep. At her side […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Men-Made Gods. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Men-Made Gods Said the Kaiser’s god to the god of the Czar: “Hark, hark, how my people pray. Their faith, methinks, is greater by far Than all the faiths of the others are; They know I will help them slay.” Said […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Memories. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Memories I am thinking of the Springtime On the farm out in the West, When my world held nothing for me that I wanted, (Save a courage all undaunted), And my foolish little rhymes, Were but heart beats, rung in chimes, That I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Astrolabius. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Astrolabius (THE CHILD OF ABELARD AND HELOISE) I Wrenched from a passing comet in its flight, By that great force of two mad hearts aflame, A soul incarnate, back to earth you came, To glow like star-dust for a little night. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. An Answer (If one should bring a rose that had been fair). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) An Answer (If one should bring a rose that had been fair) If one should bring a rose that had been fair, And very fragrant, and surpassing sweet Before it lost its beauty in the heat Of crowded ball-rooms or the gas-light’s glare, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Angela. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Angela Last night, I saw Angela — Beppo’s bride. She veiled her eyes, and looked at me askance. Her mien was haugthy (sic); and distrust, and pride, Were mingled in her glance. I strove to win one friendly look or word – […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream? […]