English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Wishes for a Little Girl. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Wishes for a Little Girl What would I ask the kindly fates to give To crown her life, if I could have my way? My strongest wishes would be negative, If they would but obey. Give her not greatness. For great […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Bound and Free. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Bound and Free Come to me, Love! Come on the wings of the wind! Fly as the ring-dove would fly to his mate! Leave all your cares and your sorrows behind! Leave all the fears of your future to Fate! Come! and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Two Sat Down. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Two Sat Down Two sat down in the morning time, One to sing and one to spin. All men listened the song sublime- But no one listened the dull wheel’s din. The singer sat in a pleasant nook, And sang of […]
English Poetry. Alan Alexander Milne. Now We Are Six. Алан Александр Милн.
Alan Alexander Milne (Алан Александр Милн) Now We Are Six When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three, I was hardly Me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Friendship. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Friendship Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee. Swear not to me that nothing can divide us- So little […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Hidden Gems. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Hidden Gems We know not what lies in us, till we seek; Men dive for pearls-they are not found on shore, The hillsides most unpromising and bleak Do sometimes hide the ore. Go, dive in the vast ocean of thy mind, […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The New Gentry. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The New Gentry 1. ENough for shame! leave off this fooling; Prithee cringe no more, Nor admire the ill-gotten store Of the upstart Mushromes of our Nation, With blind and groundless adoration; If thy nature still wants schooling, As thou dost grow old, […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Antipolititian. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Antipolititian 1. COme leave thy care, and love thy friend; Live freely, don’t dispair, Of getting money there’s no end, And keeping it breeds care. If thou hast money at thy need, Good company, and good Wine, His life, whose joyes on […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Prodigal. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Prodigal 1. NAy perswade not, I’ve swore We’l have one pottle more, Though we run on the score, And our credits do stretch for’t; To what end does a father Pine his body, or rather Damn his soul, for to gather Such […]
English Poetry. Robert Williams Buchanan. The Glamour. Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен.
Robert Williams Buchanan (Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен) The Glamour The hills close round her—everywhere Strange voices deepen in the air; The pain, the hope, the agony, Flash to a sense of mystery; The shapes of earth and air and skies Catch glamour in her weary eyes; Worn with the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Poems of the Week. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Poems of the Week SUNDAY Lie still and rest, in that serene repose That on this holy morning comes to those Who have been burdened with the cares which make The sad heart weary and the tired head ache. Lie still […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ghosts. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Ghosts There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair. There’s the ghost of a Hope […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Æsthetic. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Æsthetic In a garb that was guiltless of colours She stood, with a dull, listless air- A creature of dumps and of dolours, But most undeniably fair. The folds of her garment fell round her, Revealing the curve of each limb; Well […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Is It Done?. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Is It Done? It is done! in the fire’s fitful flashes, The last line has withered and curled. In a tiny white heap of dead ashes Lie buried the hopes of your world. There were mad foolish vows in each letter, It […]
English Poetry. John Newton. Bitter and Sweet. Джон Ньютон.
John Newton (Джон Ньютон) Bitter and Sweet Kindle, Saviour, in my heart, A flame of love divine; Hear, for mine I trust thou art, And sure I would be thine; If my soul has felt thy grace, If to me thy name is known; Why should trifles fill […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Slipping Away. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Slipping Away Slipping away-slipping away! Out of our brief year slips the May; And Winter lingers, and Summer flies; And Sorrow abideth, and Pleasure dies; And the days are short, and the nights are long; And little is right, and much is […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Two. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Two One leaned on velvet cushions like a queen- To see him pass, the hero of an hour, Whom men called great. She bowed with languid mien, And smiled, and blushed, and knew her beauty’s power. One trailed her tinselled garments […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Girl’s Faith. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Girl’s Faith Across the miles that stretch between, Through days of gloom or glad sunlight, There shines a face I have not seen Which yet doth make my world more bright. He may be near, he may be far, Or […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Reminiscence. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Reminiscence I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose A wee one, that grows Down low on the bush, where her sisters above Cannot see all that’s done As the moments roll on. Nor hear all the whispers and murmurs of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Midsummer. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Midsummer After the May time, and after the June time, Rare with blossoms and perfumes sweet, Cometh the round world’s royal noon time, The red midsummer of blazing heat. When the sun, like an eye that never closes, Bends on the earth […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Club. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Club 1. PRithee ben’t so sad and serious, Nothing’s got by grief or care; Melancholy’s too imperious, Where it comes ’twill domineer; If thou hast a cloudy breast, In which thy cares would build a nest; Then drink good Sack, ’twill make […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. Satisfaction. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) Satisfaction 1. I Have often heard men say, That the Philosophers of old, Though they were good, and grave, and gray, Did various opinions hold; And with idolatry adore The Gods that themselves had made before; And we that are fools do do […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Prisoners. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Prisoners Written when O. C. attempted to be King. COme a brimmer (my bullies) drink whole ones or nothing, Now healths have been voted down, ‘Tis Sack that can heat us, we care not for cloathing, A gallon’s as warm as a […]
English Poetry. Robert Williams Buchanan. Nell. Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен.
Robert Williams Buchanan (Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен) Nell She gazes not at her who hears, But, while the gathering darkness cries, Stares at the vacancy through tears, That burn upon her glistening eyes, Yet do not fall. Her hair falls free Around a face grown deathly thin; Her elbow […]
English Poetry. Robert Williams Buchanan. Barbara Gray. Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен.
Robert Williams Buchanan (Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен) Barbara Gray A mourning woman, robed in black, Stands in the twilight, looking back; Her hand is on her heart, her head Bends musingly above the Dead, Her face is plain, and pinch’d, and thin, But splendour strikes it from within. […]
English Poetry. John Newton. Waiting For Spring. Джон Ньютон.
John Newton (Джон Ньютон) Waiting For Spring Though cloudy skies, and northern blasts, Retard the gentle spring awhile; The sun will conqu’ror prove at last, And nature wear a vernal smile. The promise, which from age to age, Has brought the changing seasons round; Again shall calm […]
English Poetry. Robert Williams Buchanan. The Starling. Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен.
Robert Williams Buchanan (Роберт Уильямс Бьюкенен) The Starling I. THE little lame tailor Sat stitching and snarling— Who in the world Was the tailor’s darling? To none of his kind Was he well-inclined, But he doted on Jack the starling. II. For the bird had […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. No Spring. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) No Spring Up from the South come the birds that were banished, Frightened away by the presence of frost. Back to the vale comes the verdure that vanished, Back to the forest the leaves that were lost. Over the hillside the carpet […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Little Blue Hood. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Little Blue Hood Every morning and every night There passes our window near the street, A little girl with an eye so bright, And a cheek so round and a lip so sweet! The daintiest, jauntiest little miss That ever any one […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Snowed Under. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Snowed Under Of a thousand things that the Year snowed under- The busy Old Year who has gone away- How many will rise in the Spring, I wonder, Brought to life by the sun of May? Will the rose-tree branches, so wholly […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Life and I (Life and I are lovers, straying). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Life and I (Life and I are lovers, straying) Life and I are lovers, straying Arm in arm along: Often like two children Maying, Full of mirth and song, Life plucks all the blooming hours Growing by the way; Binds them on […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In the Crowd. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) In the Crowd How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd! How they bow, how they bend, how they flutter, How they look at […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Unattained. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Unattained A vision beauteous as the morn, With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming, Slow glided o’er a field late shorn Where walked a poet idly dreaming. He saw her, and joy lit his face, “Oh, vanish not at human speaking,” He […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Half Fledged. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Half Fledged I feel the stirrings in me of great things. New half-fledged thoughts rise up and beat their wings, And tremble on the margin of their nest, Then flutter back, and hide within my breast. Beholding space, they doubt their […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. And They Are Dumb. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) And They Are Dumb I have been across the bridges of the years. Wet with tears Were the ties on which I trod, going back Down the track To the valley where I left, ’neath skies of Truth, My lost youth. As […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Punished. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Punished Not they who know the awful gibbet’s anguish, Not they who, while sad years go by them, in The sunless cells of lonely prisons languish, Do suffer fullest penalty for sin. ’Tis they who walk the highways unsuspected, Yet […]
English Poetry. William Topaz McGonagall. The Moon. Уильям Топаз Макгонаголл.
William Topaz McGonagall (Уильям Топаз Макгонаголл) The Moon Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou seemest most charming to my sight; As I gaze upon thee in the sky so high, A tear of joy does moisten mine eye. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Through Dim Eyes. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Through Dim Eyes Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder? I see not the grace that I used to see In the meadow-brook whose song was so glad, or In the boughs of the willow tree. The brook runs […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Into Space. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Into Space If the sad old world should jump a cog Sometime, in its dizzy spinning, And go off the track with a sudden jog, What an end would come to the sinning, What a rest from strife and the burdens of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. All for Me. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) All for Me The world grows green on a thousand hills- By a thousand willows the bees are humming, And a million birds by a million rills, Sing of the golden season coming. But, gazing out on the sun-kist lea, And hearing […]