English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Fireflies in the Garden. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Fireflies in the Garden Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Acceptance. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Acceptance When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. What Fifty Said. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) What Fifty Said When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. I suffered like a metal being cast. I went to school to age to learn the past. Now […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Two Look at Two. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Two Look at Two Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the mountain side With night so near, but not much further up. They must have halted soon in any case With thoughts of a path back, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. One Step Backward Taken. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) One Step Backward Taken Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance Bumped heads together dully And started down the gully. Whole capes caked off in slices. I felt […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. But Outer Space. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) * * * But outer Space, At least this far, For all the fuss Of the populace Stays more popular Than populous Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The Investment Reluctance Pan with Us Never […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Peck of Gold. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Peck of Gold Dust always blowing about the town, Except when sea-fog laid it down, And I was one of the children told Some of the blowing dust was gold. All the dust the wind blew high Appeared like […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Oven Bird. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Holly-Tree. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Holly-Tree O reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist’s sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Christmas Trees. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Christmas Trees (A Christmas Circular Letter) THE CITY had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Span of Life. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Span of Life The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: What Fifty Said Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The Investment The Times Table Reluctance 882 […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Aim Was Song. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Aim Was Song Before man came to blow it right The wind once blew itself untaught, And did its loudest day and night In any rough place where it caught. Man came to tell it what was wrong: I hadn’t […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To hear us talk) The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not bar Our passage to our journey’s end for good, But just to […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. An Old Man’s Winter Night. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) An Old Man’s Winter Night All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze Was the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Late Walk. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Late Walk When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew, Half closes the garden path. And when I come to the garden ground, The whir of sober birds Up […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Door in the Dark. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Door in the Dark In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Death of the Hired Man. Роберт Ли Фрост. Смерть батрака
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Death of the Hired Man Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage To meet him in the doorway with the news And put […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the daylong voice of Eve Had added to their own an oversound, Her tone of […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Asking For Roses. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Asking For Roses A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster; It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses. I pass by […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Widow. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Widow Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snows fell, Wide were the downs and shelterless and naked, When a poor Wanderer struggled on her journey Weary and way-sore. Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflexions; Cold was the night […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Pasture. Роберт Ли Фрост. Пастбище
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Pasture I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I shan’t be gone long. — You come too. I’m going out to fetch the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Home Burial. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Home Burial He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over her shoulder at some fear. She took a doubtful step and then undid it To raise herself and look […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Desert Places. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it—it […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Into My Own. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Into My Own One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto th eedge of doom. I should […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Love and a Question. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Love and a Question A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in his hand, And, for all burden, care. He asked with the eyes more […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Girl’s Garden. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Girl’s Garden A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked her father To give her a garden […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Hyla Brook. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Hyla Brook By June our brook’s run out of song and speed. Sought for much after that, it will be found Either to have gone groping underground (And taken with it all the Hyla breed That shouted in the mist a […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Design. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Design I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth – Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Silken Tent. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Silken Tent She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease, And its supporting central […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Rose Family. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Rose Family The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose, And the pear is, and so’s The plum, I suppose. The dear only know What will next […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. High In The Air Exposed. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) * * * High in the air exposed the slave is hung, To all the birds of heaven, their living food! He groans not, though awaked by that fierce sun New torturers live to drink their parent blood; He groans not, though the gorging […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Putting in the Seed. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Putting in the Seed You come to fetch me from my work to-night When supper’s on the table, and we’ll see If I can leave off burying the white Soft petals fallen from the apple tree (Soft petals, yes, but not […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Two Tramps in Mud Time. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Two Tramps in Mud Time Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily ”Hit them hard!” I knew pretty well why he had […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Mending Wall. Роберт Ли Фрост. Починка стены
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Mending Wall Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulder in the sun, And make gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Ghost House. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Ghost House I DWELL in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the daylight falls, And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Dust of Snow. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Kenmure’s on and awa. Роберт Бернс. «Лорд Кенмур сбирается, Вилли…»
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Kenmure’s on and awa O Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie! O Kenmure’s on and awa! And Kenmure’s lord’s the bravest lord That ever Galloway saw. Success to Kenmure’s band, Willie! Success to Kenmure’s band; There’s no a heart that fears a Whig That […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Song of Death. Роберт Бернс. Предсмертная песнь
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Song of Death SCENE – A field of battle. Time of the day – Evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the song. Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. For the Sake of Somebody. Роберт Бернс. О ком-то, кого я жду
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) For the Sake of Somebody My heart is sair, I dare na tell, My heart is sair for somebody; I could wake a winter night, For the sake o’ somebody! Oh-hon! for somebody! Oh-hey! for somebody! I could range the world around, For the […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. O, for ane an’ Twenty, Tam!. Роберт Бернс. День совершеннолетья
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) O, for ane an’ Twenty, Tam! An’ O for ane an’ twenty, Tam! An’ hey, sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam! I’ll learn my kin a rattlin’ sang, An’ I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam. They snool me sair, and haud me down, An’ […]