English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Self-Seeker. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Self-Seeker ”Willis, I didn’t want you here to-day: The lawyer’s coming for the company. I’m going to sell my soul, or, rather, feet. Five hundred dollars for the pair, you know.” ”With you the feet have […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Mountain. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Mountain The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed that I missed stars in the west, Where its black body cut into the sky. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Bonfire. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Bonfire “OH, let’s go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow. Oh, let’s not wait […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Meeting and Passing. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Meeting and Passing As I went down the hill along the wall There was a gate I had leaned at for the view And had just turned from when I first saw you As you came up the hill. We met. […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. To Mary Wollstonecraft. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) To Mary Wollstonecraft The lilly cheek, the “purple light of love,” The liquid lustre of the melting eye,– Mary! of these the Poet sung, for these Did Woman triumph! with no angry frown View this degrading conquest. At that age No MAID OF ARC […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. In a Vale. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) In a Vale WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale By a misty fen that rang all night, And thus it was the maidens pale I knew so well, whose garments trail Across the reeds to a window light. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Telephone. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Telephone ‘When I was just as far as I could walk From here today, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head again a flower I heard you talk. Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say– […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. An Encounter. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) An Encounter ONCE on the kind of day called “weather breeder,” When the heat slowly hazes and the sun By its own power seems to be undone, I was half boring through, half climbing through A swamp of cedar. Choked with […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There’d been some Boston people out to see it: And experts said that deep down in […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Cliff Dwelling. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Cliff Dwelling There sandy seems the golden sky And golden seems the sandy plain. No habitation meets the eye Unless in the horizon rim, Some halfway up the limestone wall, That spot of black is not a stain Or shadow, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. To E.T.. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) To E.T. I slumbered with your poems on my breast Spread open as I dropped them half-read through Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb To see, if in a dream they brought of you, I might not […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Times Table. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Times Table More than halfway up the pass Was a spring with a broken drinking glass, And whether the farmer drank or not His mare was sure to observe the spot By cramping the wheel on a water-bar, turning her […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Peaceful Shepherd. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Peaceful Shepherd If heaven were to do again, And on the pasture bars, I leaned to line the figures in Between the dotted starts, I should be tempted to forget, I fear, the Crown of Rule, The Scales of […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Onset. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Onset Always the same, when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as white As may be in dark woods, and with a song It shall not make again all winter long Of hissing on the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Demiurge’s Laugh. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Demiurge’s Laugh It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon’s trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god. i was just as the light was beginning to fail […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. Jaspar. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) Jaspar Jaspar was poor, and want and vice Had made his heart like stone, And Jaspar look’d with envious eyes On riches not his own. On plunder bent abroad he went Towards the close of day, And loitered on the lonely road Impatient […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Code. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Code There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always lifted toward the west Where an irregular sun-bordered cloud Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Bear. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Bear The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye, Then lets it snap back upright in the sky. Her next step […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Snow. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Snow The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and then blew free again—the Coles Dressed, but dishevelled from some hours of sleep, Meserve belittled in the great skin coat […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Range-Finding. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Range-Finding The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird’s nest Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so hung. And still the bird revisited her young. A butterfly its […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Paul’s Wife. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Paul’s Wife To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, ”How is the wife, Paul?”–and he’d disappear. Some said it was because be bad no wife, And hated to be twitted on […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. New Hampshire. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) New Hampshire I met a lady from the South who said (You won’t believe she said it, but she said it): ”None of my family ever worked, or had A thing to sell.” I don’t suppose the work Much matters. You […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Maple. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Maple Her teacher’s certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and he told her, ”Maple— Maple is right.” ”But teacher told the school There’s no such name.” ”Teachers don’t know as […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Lodged. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Lodged The rain to the wind said, ’You push and I’ll pelt.’ They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged–though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Bond and Free. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Bond and Free Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about– Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Though has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. On […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. To the Thawing Wind. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) To the Thawing Wind COME with rain. O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; make the settled snowbank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; But whate’er you do tonight, bath my window, […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. Mary. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) Mary A Ballad I. Who is she, the poor Maniac, whose wildly-fix’d eyes Seem a heart overcharged to express? She weeps not, yet often and deeply she sighs, She never complains, but her silence implies The composure of settled distress. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. To Earthward. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) To Earthward Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The scent of — was it musk From hidden grapevine springs […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Investment. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Investment Over back where they speak of life as staying (’You couldn’t call it living, for it ain’t’), There was an old, old house renewed with paint, And in it a piano loudly playing. Out in the plowed ground […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Sand Dunes. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Sand Dunes Sea waves are green and wet, But up from where they die, Rise others vaster yet, And those are brown and dry. They are the sea made land To come at the fisher town, And bury in solid […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Riders. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Riders The surest thing there is is we are riders, And though none too successful at it, guiders, Through everything presented, land and tide And now the very air, of what we ride. What is this talked-of mystery of birth […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Now Close the Windows. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Now Close the Windows Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The west was getting out of gold, The breath of air had died of cold, When shoeing home across the white, I thought I saw a bird alight. In summer when I passed the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Hannibal. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Hannibal Was there even a cause too lost, Ever a cause that was lost too long, Or that showed with the lapse of time to vain For the generous tears of youth and song? Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Dream Pang. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Dream Pang I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway; And to the forest edge you came one day (This was my dream) and looked and pondered long, But did not enter, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Fear. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Fear A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their lurching shadows on a house Near by, all dark in every glossy window. A horse’s hoof pawed once the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight When I spread out my hand here today, I catch no more than a ray To feel of between thumb and fingers; No lasting effect of it lingers. There was one time and […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. Hold Your Mad Hands. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) * * * Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? For ever must your Niger’s tainted flood, Roll to the ravenous shark his banquet slain? Hold your mad hands! and learn at length […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Good-by and Keep Cold. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Good-by and Keep Cold This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen to harm An orchard away at the end of the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Going for Water. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Going for Water The well was dry beside the door, And so we went with pail and can Across the fields behind the house To seek the brook if still it ran; Not loth to have excuse to go, Because […]