English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. A Year’s Spinning. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) A Year’s Spinning 1 He listened at the porch that day, To hear the wheel go on, and on; And then it stopped, ran back away, While through the door he brought the sun: But now my spinning is all done. 2 He […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad. 4. Reveille. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) A Shropshire Lad. 4. Reveille Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims. Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters, Trampled to the floor it spanned, And the […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. The Sweetness of England. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) The Sweetness of England And when, at last Escaped,-so many a green slope built on slope Betwixt me and the enemy’s house behind, I dared to rest, or wander,-like a rest Made sweeter for the step upon the grass,- And view the ground’s most […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. On No Work of Words. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft: To take to give […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. My World Is Pyramid. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) My World Is Pyramid I Half of the fellow father as he doubles His sea-sucked Adam in the hollow hulk, Half of the fellow mother as she dabbles To-morrow’s diver in her horny milk, Bisected shadows on the thunder’s bone Bolt for the […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes in the Cuckoo’s Month. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo’s month, Under the lank, fourth folly on Glamorgan’s hill, As the green blooms ride upward, to the drive of time; Time, in a folly’s rider, like a county man Over the vault of […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. When Once the Twilight Locks No Longer. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * When once the twilight locks no longer Locked in the long worm of my finger Nor damned the sea that sped about my fist, The mouth of time sucked, like a sponge, The milky acid on each hinge, And swallowed dry […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. When, Like a Running Grave. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) When, Like a Running Grave When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. To-Day, This Insect. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) To-Day, This Insect To-day, this insect, and the world I breathe, Now that my symbols have outelbowed space, Time at the city spectacles, and half The dear, daft time I take to nudge the sentence, In trust and tale I have divided sense, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. All That I Owe the Fellows of the Grave. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * All that I owe the fellows of the grave And all the dead bequeathed from pale estates Lies in the fortuned bone, the flask of blood, Like senna stirs along the ravaged roots. O all I owe is all the flesh […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. January 1939. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) January 1939 Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires, Shall the blind horse sing sweeter? Convenient bird and beast lie lodged to suffer The supper and knives of a mood. In the sniffed and poured snow on the tip of the tongue […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Where Once the Waters of Your Face. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead turns up its eye; Where once the mermen through your ice Pushed up their hair, the dry wind steers Through salt and root and […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad. 8. Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) A Shropshire Lad. 8. Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree ‘FAREWELL to barn and stack and tree, Farewell to Severn shore. Terence, look your last at me, For I come home no more. ‘The sun burns on the half-mown […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Foster the Light. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Foster the Light Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon, Nor weather winds that blow not down the bone, But strip the twelve-winded marrow from his circle; Master the night nor serve the snowman’s brain That shapes each bushy item of the air […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Ears in the Turrets Hear. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Ears in the turrets hear Hands grumble on the door, Eyes in the gables see The fingers at the locks. Shall I unbolt or stay Alone till the day I die Unseen by stranger-eyes In this white house? Hands, hold you […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Incarnate Devil. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Incarnate Devil Incarnate devil in a talking snake, The central plains of Asia in his garden, In shaping-time the circle stung awake, In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple, And God walked there who was a fiddling warden And played down […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait The bows glided down, and the coast Blackened with birds took a last look At his thrashing hair and whale-blue eye; The trodden town rang its cobbles for luck. Then good-bye to the fishermanned Boat with its anchor […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound In the throat, burning and turning. All night afloat On the silent sea we have heard the sound That came from the wound wrapped in the salt sheet. Under the […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. In the Beginning. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) In the Beginning In the beginning was the three-pointed star, One smile of light across the empty face, One bough of bone across the rooting air, The substance forked that marrowed the first sun, And, burning ciphers on the round of space, Heaven and […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. From Love’s First Fever to Her Plague. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) From Love’s First Fever to Her Plague From love’s first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From the unfolding to the scissored caul, The time for breast and the green apron age When no […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Not from This Anger. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Not from This Anger Not from this anger, anticlimax after Refusal struck her loin and the lame flower Bent like a beast to lap the singular floods In a land strapped by hunger Shall she receive a bellyful of weeds And bear those tendril […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. My Hero Bares His Nerves. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) My Hero Bares His Nerves My hero bares his nerves along my wrist That rules from wrist to shoulder, Unpacks the head that, like a sleepy ghost, Leans on my mortal ruler, The proud spine spurning turn and twist. And these poor […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Especially When the October Wind. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea’s side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. Along The Field as We Came By. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) * * * ALONG the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone Was talking to itself alone. ‘Oh who are these that kiss and pass? A country lover and his […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Was There a Time. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Was There a Time Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children’s circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could cry over books, But time has set its maggot on their track. Under the arc of the sky […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. In My Craft or Sullen Art. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Elegy. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Elegy Too proud to die; broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day. Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Poem in October. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Poem in October It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore The morning beckon With water praying and call of seagull and rook And the knock of […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. All All and All the Dry Worlds Lever. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * I All all and all the dry worlds lever, Stage of the ice, the solid ocean, All from the oil, the pound of lava. City of spring, the governed flower, Turns in the earth that turns the ashen Towns around […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Fern Hill. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) Fern Hill Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, […]
English Poetry. Dylan Thomas. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Дилан Томас.
Dylan Thomas (Дилан Томас) * * * Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Song of Faith. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) A Song of Faith My glass of life with its brew of Being, I lift, with a toast, to the Universe. Though black guns bellow and mad men curse And a sick world hurries from bad to worse I trust in the might […]
English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. Last Poems. 10. Could Man Be Drunk for Ever. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).
Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен)) Last Poems. 10. Could Man Be Drunk for Ever Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down at nights. But men at whiles are sober And think […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Somewhere. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Somewhere Somewhere there is a spot of ground, Covered with grass, or snow, may be, That one day will be spaded ’round And dug up to make room for me. And I unconsciously have trod, Perhaps, and so again may tread Upon […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Snowflake. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Snowflake All sheltered by the mother-cloud The little flake looked down; It saw the city’s seething crowd, It saw the shining town. “How fair and far those steeples rise To greet us, mother dear! It is so lovely in the skies, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Shrines. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Shrines About a holy shrine or sacred place Where many hearts have bowed in earnest prayer, The loveliest spirits congregate from space, And bring their sweet uplifting influence there. If in your chamber you pray oft and well, Soon will these angel […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Satiety. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Satiety To yearn for what we have not had, to sit With hungry eyes glued on the Future’s gate, Why that is heaven compared to having it With all the power gone to appreciate. Better to wait and yearn, and still to […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Five Kisses. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Five Kisses I THE MOTHER’S KISS Love breathed a secret to her listening heart, And said, “Be silent.” Though she guarded it, And dwelt as one within a world apart, Yet sun and star seemed by that secret lit; And where […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Geraldine. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Geraldine Just as the sun went bathing in a sea Of liquid amber, flecked with caps of gold, I told The sweet old story unto Geraldine, my Queen, Who long hath made the whole of life for me. But though she smiled […]