English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. For Once, Then, Something. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) For Once, Then, Something Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the well than where the water Gives me back in a shining surface picture Me myself in the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Devotion. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Devotion The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean– Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter The Investment Reluctance Pan […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Canis Major. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Canis Major The great Overdog That heavenly beast With a star in one eye Gives a leap in the east. He dances upright All the way to the west And never once drops On his forefeet to rest. I’m a poor […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Reluctance. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Patch of Old Snow. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Patch of Old Snow There’s a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain Had brought to rest. It is speckled with grime as if Small print overspread it, […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. A Baby’s Cradle With No Baby In It. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) * * * A baby’s cradle with no baby in it, A baby’s grave where autumn leaves drop sere; The sweet soul gathered home to Paradise, The body waiting here. Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems: A Testimony Repining Maiden May Twice The […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Runaway. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Runaway Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, We stopped by a mountain pasture to say ’Whose colt?’ A little Morgan had one forefoot on the wall, The other curled at his breast. He dipped his […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Provide, Provide. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Provide, Provide The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag, The picture pride of Hollywood. Too many fall from great and good For you to doubt the likelihood. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Gathering Leaves. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Gathering Leaves Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Minor Bird. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Minor Bird I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Neither out Far Nor in Deep. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Neither out Far Nor in Deep The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. In Hardwood Groves. Роберт Ли Фрост. В лиственном лесу
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) In Hardwood Groves The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown And fit the earth like a leather glove. Before the leaves can mount again To fill the trees […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Prayer in Spring. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Prayer in Spring OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Passing Glimpse. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Passing Glimpse To Ridgely Torrence On Last Looking into His ’Hesperides’ I often see flowers from a passing car That are gone before I can tell what they are. I want to get out of the […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. In a Disused Graveyard. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) In a Disused Graveyard The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead. The verses in it say and say: ”The ones who living come today […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Need of Being Versed in Country Things. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Need of Being Versed in Country Things The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of the house that stood, Like a pistil after the petals go. The barn […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Youth and Lordship. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Youth and Lordship MY young lord’s the lover Of earth and sky above, Of youth’s sway and youth’s play, Of songs and flowers and love. Yet for love’s desire Green youth lacks the daring; Though one dream of fire, All his hours […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Stars. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Stars How countlessly they congregate O’er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do blow!– As if with keeness for our fate, Our faltering few steps on To white rest, and a place […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Time to Talk. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Time to Talk When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Question. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Question A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth. Robert Lee Frost’s other poems: Looking for a Sunset Bird in […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Sound of the Trees. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Sound of the Trees I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place? We suffer them by the day Till we lose all […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Cow in Apple-Time. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Cow in Apple-Time Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate, And think no more of wall-builders than fools. Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools A cider syrup. […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. October. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) October O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. My November Guest. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) My November Guest My Sorrow, when she’s here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Once by the Pacific. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Once by the Pacific The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. The clouds were low and hairy in the skies, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. After Apple-Picking. Роберт Ли Фрост. После сбора яблок
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) After Apple-Picking My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. But I am done with […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Bereft. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Bereft Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for, Holding open a restive door, Looking down hill to a frothy shore? Summer was past and day was […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. William Blake. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) William Blake THIS is the place. Even here the dauntless soul, The unflinching hand, wrought on; till in that nook, As on that very bed, his life partook New birth, and passed. Yon river’s dusky shoal, Whereto the close-built coiling lanes unroll, […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Acquainted with the Night. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain –and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Birches. Роберт Ли Фрост. Берёзы
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Birches When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. ’Out, Out–’. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) ’Out, Out–’ The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count Five mountain ranges one behind […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Lockless Door. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Lockless Door It went many years, But at last came a knock, And I though of the door With no lock to lock. I blew out the light, I tip-toed the floor, And raised both hands In prayer to […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Fire and Ice. Роберт Ли Фрост. Огонь и лёд
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Роберт Ли Фрост. Остановка зимним вечером у леса
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Nothing Gold Can Stay. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Road Not Taken. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Wind and Window Flower. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) Wind and Window Flower LOVERS, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. When the frosty window veil Was melted down at noon, And the cagèd yellow bird Hung over […]
English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. The Vantage Point. Роберт Ли Фрост.
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) The Vantage Point If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Well I know where to hie me–in the dawn, To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn. There amid lolling juniper reclined, Myself unseen, I see in white defined Far […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Burden of Nineveh. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The Burden of Nineveh In our Museum galleries To-day I lingered o’er the prize Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,— Her Art for ever in fresh wise From hour to hour rejoicing me. Sighing I turned at last to win Once more […]
English Poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Томас Стернз Элиот. Любовная песнь Дж. Альфреда Пруфрока
Thomas Stearns Eliot (Томас Стернз Элиот) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma percioche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia […]