English Poetry. John Clare. A Spring Morning. Джон Клэр.

John Clare (Джон Клэр) A Spring Morning THE Spring comes in with all her hues and smells, In freshness breathing over hills and dells; O’er woods where May her gorgeous drapery flings, And meads washed fragrant by their laughing springs. Fresh are new opened flowers, untouched and free […]

English Poetry. Norman Rowland Gale. Out. Норман Гейл.

Norman Rowland Gale (Норман Гейл) Out O very potent little word, ‘Out!’ How often have we sadly heard ‘Out!’ When stupid umpires surely sin, Just as to settle we begin, And say, in place of saying ‘in,’ ‘Out!’ Though I am Captain of the team, ‘Out!’ Though […]

English Poetry. Norman Rowland Gale. Up at Lords. Норман Гейл.

Norman Rowland Gale (Норман Гейл) Up at Lords When Stoddart makes her hum, Up at Lords, Till the bowler bites his thumb, Up at Lords, How the Middlesex supporters Turn vociferous exhorters As he jumps on Lockwood’s Snorters, Up at Lords! When Stoddart makes her hum Up […]

English Poetry. Norman Rowland Gale. In Spring. Норман Гейл.

Norman Rowland Gale (Норман Гейл) In Spring Grass begins to grow, Winds to be more civil, Rollers press the pitch For to make it level: Thrushes pipe a stave In the budding thicket; Snowdrops point to pads, Crocuses to Cricket! Soon will stand the Slip Crouching for […]

English Poetry. Henry Vaughan. Man. Генри Воэн.

Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) Man Weighing the steadfastness and state Of some mean things which here below reside, Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date And intercourse of times divide; Where bees at night get home and hive, and flowers Early, as well as late, Rise with […]

English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 3. The Mystic Trumpeter. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 32. Из цикла «От полудня до звездной ночи». 3. Таинственный трубач

Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 3. The Mystic Trumpeter 1 Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes, Now pouring, whirling […]

English Poetry. Henry Vaughan. Childhood. Генри Воэн.

Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) Childhood I cannot reach it; and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive, Those white designs which children drive, And the thoughts of each harmless hour, With their content, too, in my power, Quickly would I make […]

English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 30. Whispers of Heavenly Death. 13. To One Shortly to Die. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. Из цикла «Шепот божественной смерти». Тому, кто скоро умрет

Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 30. Whispers of Heavenly Death. 13. To One Shortly to Die From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you, You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate, I am exact and […]

English Poetry. Henry Vaughan. The Retreat. Генри Воэн.

Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) The Retreat Happy those early days, when I Shin’d in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walk’d above A mile or […]

English Poetry. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 11. Thoughts. Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы. 32. Из цикла «От полудня до звездной ночи». 11. Мысли

Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен) Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 11. Thoughts Of public opinion, Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!) Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say […]