English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Beauty’s Soliloquy during Her Honeymoon. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Beauty’s Soliloquy during Her Honeymoon Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Would catch the world’s keen eyes so! How the men look at me! My radiant rareness I deemed not they would prize so! That I was […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Sestina. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Sestina I saw my soul at rest upon a day As a bird sleeping in the nest of night, Among soft leaves that give the starlight way To touch its wings but not its eyes with light; So that it knew as […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Cynic’s Epitaph. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Cynic’s Epitaph A race with the sun as he downed I ran at evetide, Intent who should first gain the ground And there hide. He beat me by some minutes then, But I triumphed anon, For when he’d to rise up again […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Will (There is no chance, no destiny, no fate). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Will (There is no chance, no destiny, no fate) There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Uselessness. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Uselessness Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall. Let me hear rather the imperious call, Which all men […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Dream (That was a curious dream; I thought the three). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Dream (That was a curious dream; I thought the three) That was a curious dream; I thought the three Great planets that are drawing near the sun With such unerring certainty begun To talk together in a mighty glee. They spoke of […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Past. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Past Fling my past behind me, like a robe Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date. I have outgrown it. Wherefore should I weep And dwell up on its beauty, and its dyes Of Oriental splendour, or complain That I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Sonnet. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Sonnet Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land, A temple by the muses set apart; A perfect structure of consummate art, By artists builded and by genius planned, Beyond the reach of the apprentice hand, Beyond the ken of the untutored heart, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I Dream. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) I Dream Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of Life In the full meaning of that splendid word. Its subtle music which few men have heard, Though all may hear it, sounding through earth’s strife. Its mountain heights by mystic breezes […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Ocean of Song. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Ocean of Song In a land beyond sight or conceiving, In a land where no blight is, no wrong, No darkness, no graves, and no grieving, There lies the great ocean of song. And its waves, oh, its waves unbeholden By […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Inevitable. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Inevitable To-day I was so weary and I lay In that delicious state of semi-waking, When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, Cried loud for “mamma,” all his toys forsaking. I was so weary and I needed rest, And signed […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Nothing But Stones. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Nothing But Stones I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light. Up through broad aisles the stylish crowd […]
English Poetry. William Topaz McGonagall. Women’s Suffrage. Уильям Топаз Макгонаголл.
William Topaz McGonagall (Уильям Топаз Макгонаголл) Women’s Suffrage Fellow men! why should the lords try to despise And prohibit women from having the benefit of the parliamentary Franchise? When they pay the same taxes as you and me, I consider they ought to have the same liberty. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Unrest. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Unrest In the youth of the year, when the birds were building, When the green was showing on tree and hedge, And the tenderest light of all lights was gilding The world from zenith to outermost edge, My soul grew sad and […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Two Sunsets. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Two Sunsets In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, with all that wild unrest To plunge into the great world’s strife That fills young hearts with mad desire, He saw a sunset. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Prayer (I do not undertake to say). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Prayer (I do not undertake to say) I do not undertake to say That literal answers come from Heaven, But I know this-that when I pray A comfort, a support is given That helps me rise o’er earthly things As larks soar up […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The House of Life. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The House of Life All wondering, and eager-eyed, within her portico I made my plea to Hostess Life, one morning long ago. “Pray show me this great house of thine, nor close a single door; But let me wander where I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Worth While. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Worth While It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. They Shall Not Win. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) They Shall Not Win Whatever the strength of our foes is now, Whatever it may have been, This is our slogan, and this our vow- They shall not win, they shall not win. Though out of the darkness they call the […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Rainbow of Promise. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Rainbow of Promise In the face of the sun are great thunderbolts hurled, And the storm-clouds have shut out its light; But a Rainbow of Promise now shines on the world, And the universe thrills at the sight. ’Tis the […]
English Poetry. Alexander Brome. The Companion. Александр Бром.
Alexander Brome (Александр Бром) The Companion 1. WHat need we take care for Platonical Rules? Or the precepts of Aristotle? They that think to find learning in books are bu• fools, True Philosophy lies in the bottle. And a mind That’s confin’d To the mode of the […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Love and Fame. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) Love and Fame WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH. I. It was the May when I was born, Soft moonlight through the casement stream’d, And still, as it were yestermorn, I dream the dream I dream’d. I saw two forms from fairy land, Along […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Hollow Oak. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) The Hollow Oak Hollow is the oak beside the sunny waters drooping; Thither came, when I was young, happy children trooping; Dream I now, or hear I now–far, their mellow whooping? Gay below the cowslip bank, see the billow dances, There I lay […]
English Poetry. John Newton. Amazing Grace. Джон Ньютон.
John Newton (Джон Ньютон) * * * Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound!) That sav’d a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. ‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears reliev’d; How […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Sabbath. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) The Sabbath Fresh glides the brook and blows the gale, Yet yonder halts the quiet mill; The whirring wheel, the rushing sail, How motionless and still! Six days of toil, poor child of Cain, Thy strength the slave of Want may be; The […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Address to the Soul in Despondency. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) Address to the Soul in Despondency No, Soul! not in vain thou hast striven, Unless thou abandon the strife; Forsworn to the banners of Heaven, If false in the battle of life. Why–counting the gain or the loss– The badge of the temple […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Treasures by the Wayside. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) The Treasures by the Wayside A TALE FOR SORROW. The sky was dull, the scene was wild, I wander’d up the mountain way; And with me went a joyous child, The man in thought, the child at play, My heart was sad […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Lost and Avenged. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) Lost and Avenged O God, give me rest from a thought! I cannot escape it nor brave; Dread ghost of a joy that I sought To harrow my soul from its grave! Farewell to the smile of the sun, The cheerful Religion of […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. A Lament. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) A Lament I stand where I last stood with thee! Sorrow, O sorrow! There is not a leaf on the trysting-tree; There is not a joy on the earth to me; Sorrow, O sorrow! When shalt thou be once again what thou wert? Oh, […]
English Poetry. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Loyalty of Love. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) The Loyalty of Love I love thee, I love thee; In vain I endeavour To fly from thine image; It haunts me for ever. All things that rejoiced me Now weary and pall; I feel in thine absence Bereft of mine all. […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. When I Think on the Happy Days. Роберт Бернс. «Я помню каждый день и час…»
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) * * * When I think on the happy days I spent wi’ you, my dearie; And now what lands between us lie, How can I be but eerie! How slow ye move, ye heavy hours, As ye were wae and weary! It […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. When I Think on the Happy Days. Роберт Бернс. «Я помню каждый день и час…»
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) * * * When I think on the happy days I spent wi’ you, my dearie; And now what lands between us lie, How can I be but eerie! How slow ye move, ye heavy hours, As ye were wae and weary! It […]
English Poetry. Charles Mackay. The Wood-Nymph. Чарльз Маккей.
Charles Mackay (Чарльз Маккей) The Wood-Nymph Far from bustle, strife, and care, ‘Mong the woods I’ve wooed her. And to her secluded nook, By the margin of a brook, And by waters bright and blue, Over meadows wet with dew, Many a time pursued her: And far away […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ascension. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Ascension I have been down in the darkest water- Deep, deep down where no light could pierce; Alone with the things that are bent on slaughter, The mindless things that are cruel and fierce. I have fought with fear in my wave-walled […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Be Not Dismayed. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Be Not Dismayed Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when death Sets its white seal upon some worshipped face. Poor human nature for a little space Must suffer anguish, when that last drawn breath Leaves such long silence; but let not thy […]
English Poetry. John Newton. The Good Samaritan. Джон Ньютон.
John Newton (Джон Ньютон) The Good Samaritan How kind the good Samaritan To him who fell among the thieves! Thus Jesus pities fallen man, And heals the wounds the soul receives. O! I remember well the day, When sorely wounded, nearly slain; Like that poor man I […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Prayer (Give us the open mind, O God). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Prayer (Give us the open mind, O God) Lord, let us pray. Give us the open mind, O God, The mind that dares believe In paths of thought as yet untrod; The mind that can conceive Large visions of a wider way […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. One by One. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) One by One Little by little and one by one, Out of the ether, were worlds created; Star and planet and sea and sun, All in the nebulous Nothing waited Till the Nameless One Who has many a name Called them to […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Black Sheep. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Black Sheep ’Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?’ Yes, sir-yes, sir: three bags full.’ ’I don’t want any New Thought,’ said he, ’Or any Theosophy, for, you see, The faith I learned at my mother’s knee Is good […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. ’Let Us Give Thanks’. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) ’Let Us Give Thanks’ For the courage which comes when we call, While troubles like hailstones fall; For the help that is somehow nigh, In the deepest night when we cry; For the path that is certainly shown When we pray in the […]