English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. A Winter Eden. Роберт Ли Фрост. Зимний рай
Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост) A Winter Eden A winter garden in an alder swamp, Where conies now come out to sun and romp, As near a paradise as it can be And not melt snow or start a dormant tree. It lifts existence on a […]
English Poetry. Alan Alexander Milne. Solitude. Алан Александр Милн. Уединение
Alan Alexander Milne (Алан Александр Милн) Solitude I have a house where I go When there’s too many people, I have a house where I go Where no one can be; I have a house where I go, Where nobody ever says ‘No’; Where no one says anything- […]
English Poetry. William Cullen Bryant. Thanatopsis. Уильям Каллен Брайант. Танатопсис
William Cullen Bryant (Уильям Каллен Брайант) Thanatopsis To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and […]
English Poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot. The Boston Evening Transcript. Томас Стернз Элиот. Бостон ивнинг трэнскрипт
Thomas Stearns Eliot (Томас Стернз Элиот) The Boston Evening Transcript The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. When evening quickens faintly in the street, Wakening the appetites of life in some And to others bringing the Boston […]
English Poetry. Thomas Stearns Eliot. Whispers of Immortality. Томас Стернз Элиот. Щепотки бессмертия
Thomas Stearns Eliot (Томас Стернз Элиот) Whispers of Immortality Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Because That You Are Going. Эмили Дикинсон. Поскольку ты уходишь
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track — Because that Death is final, However first it be, This instant be suspended Above Mortality — Significance that each has […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. It’s Coming — the Postponeless Creature. Эмили Дикинсон. Подходит — не отложит Встречу
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * It’s coming — the postponeless Creature — It gains the Block — and now — it gains the Door — Chooses its latch, from all the other fastenings — Enters — with a “You know Me — Sir”? Simple […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. There Is No Frigate Like a Book. Эмили Дикинсон. Нет лучше Фрегата — чем Книга
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry— This Traverse may the poorest take Without opress of Toll— How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human […]
English Poetry. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Love is Not All. Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей. Любовь еще не все…
Edna St. Vincent Millay (Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей) Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Let Us Fly!. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Let Us Fly! Let us fly! It is long past eleven; The watch-dogs are silent; the moon Hath all but abandoned the heaven, And midnight is sinking in swoon. Not a chirp to be heard in the thicket; The kine are asleep in the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Pair He Saw Pass. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Pair He Saw Pass O sad man, now a long dead man, To whom it was so real, I picture, as ’twere yesterday, How you would tell the tale! Just wived were you, you sad dead man, And ‘settling down’, you’d […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Faithful Swallow. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Faithful Swallow When summer shone Its sweetest on An August day, ‘Here evermore,’ I said, ‘I’ll stay; Not go away To another shore As fickle they!’ December came: ’Twas not the same! I did not know Fidelity Would serve me so. […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. An Inquiry. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) An Inquiry A Phantasy Circumdederunt me dolores mortis. – PS. XVIII I said to It: ‘We grasp not what you meant, (Dwelling down here, so narrowly pinched and pent) By crowning Death the King of the Firmament: – The query I […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. The Birks of Aberfeldy. Роберт Бернс. Берёзы Эберфельди
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) The Birks of Aberfeldy Bonnie lassie, will ye go, Will ye go, will ye go, Bonnie lassie, will ye go To the Birks of Aberfeldy? Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o’er the crystal streamlet plays, Come let us spend the lightsome […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Ca’ the Yowes. Роберт Бернс. Пастух («Гнал овец пастушок…»)
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Ca’ the Yowes Ca’ the yowes to the knowes, Ca’ them where the heather grows, Ca’ them where the burnie rows, My bonnie dearie. Hark! the mavis’ evening sang Sounding Clouden’s woods amang; Then a-faulding let us gang, My bonnie dearie. We’ll […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Acknowledgment. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Acknowledgment I. O Age that half believ’st thou half believ’st, Half doubt’st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half perceiving that thou half perceiv’st, Stand’st at thy temple door, heart in, head out! Lo! while thy heart’s within, helping the choir, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Thou and I. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Thou and I So one in heart and thought, I trow, That thou might’st press the strings and I might draw the bow And both would meet in music sweet, Thou and I, I trow. Sidney Lanier’s other poems: From the Flats Ode to […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Wedding. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Wedding O marriage-bells, your clamor tells Two weddings in one breath. SHE marries whom her love compels: — And I wed Goodman Death! My brain is blank, my tears are red; Listen, O God: — ”I will,” he said: – And I […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Symphony. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Symphony ”O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart — ’tis tired of head: We’re all for love,” the violins said. ”Of what avail the rigorous tale Of bill for coin and box for bale? Grant thee, O […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Raven Days. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Raven Days Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken, And but the ghosts of homes to us remain, And ghastly eyes and hollow sighs give token From friend to friend of an unspoken pain. O Raven days, dark […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Winter Violets. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Winter Violets Here are sad flowers, with wintry weeping wet, Dews of the dark that drench the violet. Thus over Her, whom death yet more endears, Nature and Man together blend their tears. Alfred Austin’s other poems: Aspromonte Nocturnal Vigils Covet Who Will The […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Hard Times in Elfland. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Hard Times in Elfland A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and Harry the four-year-old, Big Charley, Nimblewits, and I, Blithe as the wind was bitter, drew More frontward […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Crystal. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Crystal At midnight, death’s and truth’s unlocking time, When far within the spirit’s hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the course of things – A bulk of silence in a mask of sound, – When darkness clears our vision that by […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Bee. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Bee What time I paced, at pleasant morn, A deep and dewy wood, I heard a mellow hunting-horn Make dim report of Dian’s lustihood Far down a heavenly hollow. Mine ear, though fain, had pain to follow: `Tara!’ it twanged, `tara-tara!’ it […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Tampa Robins. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Tampa Robins The robin laughed in the orange-tree: ”Ho, windy North, a fig for thee: While breasts are red and wings are bold And green trees wave us globes of gold, Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me — Sunlight, song, and […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Struggle. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Struggle My soul is like the oar that momently Dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave, Then glitters out again and sweeps the sea: Each second I’m new-born from some new grave. Sidney Lanier’s other poems: From the Flats Ode to the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Street Cries. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Street Cries Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out along the street Their needs, as wares; one THUS, one SO: Till all the ways are full of sound: — […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Spring Greeting. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Spring Greeting From the German of Herder. All faintly through my soul to-day, As from a bell that far away Is tinkled by some frolic fay, Floateth a lovely chiming. Thou magic bell, to many a fell And many a […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Souls and Rain-Drops. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Souls and Rain-Drops Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea, Then vanish, and die utterly. One would not know that rain-drops fell If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell. So souls come down and wrinkle life And vanish in the flesh-sea strife. One […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. On Huntingdon’s “Miranda”. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) On Huntingdon’s “Miranda” The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet, And laid him kneeling at thy feet. But, — guerdon rich for favor rare! The wind hath all thy holy hair To kiss and to sing through and to flare Like torch-flames […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Nirvana. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Nirvana Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies, Through seas of solitudes and vacancies, And through my Self, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana. Oh long ago the billow-flow of sense, Aroused by passion’s windy vehemence, Upbore […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Twilight Song. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Twilight Song Why, rapturous bird, though shades of night Muffle the leaves and swathe the lawn, Singest thou still with all thy might, As though ’twere noon, as though ’twere dawn? Silence darkens on vale and hill, But thou, unseen, art singing still. […]
English Poetry. William Blake. Songs of Innocence. The Little Boy Lost. Уильям Блейк. Песни невинности. Маленький мальчик, потерявшийся
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) Songs of Innocence. The Little Boy Lost ‘Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.’ The night was dark, no father was there; The child was […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Nilsson. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Nilsson A rose of perfect red, embossed With silver sheens of crystal frost, Yet warm, nor life nor fragrance lost. High passion throbbing in a sphere That Art hath wrought of diamond clear, — A great heart beating in a tear. […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Night and Day. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Night and Day The innocent, sweet Day is dead. Dark Night hath slain her in her bed. O, Moors are as fierce to kill as to wed! — Put out the light, said he. A sweeter light than ever rayed From star of […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Martha Washington. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Martha Washington Written for the ”Martha Washington Court Journal”. Down cold snow-stretches of our bitter time, When windy shams and the rain-mocking sleet Of Trade have cased us in such icy rime That hearts are scarcely hot enough to beat, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Ireland. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Ireland Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880. Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland, Charmer of the sun and sea, Bright beguiler of old anguish, How could Famine frown on thee? As our Gulf-Stream, drawn to thee-ward, Turns him from […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Corn. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Corn To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green as dawn-stars melt in blue. The leaves that wave against my cheek caress Like women’s hands; the embracing boughs express A subtlety […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Control. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Control O Hunger, Hunger, I will harness thee And make thee harrow all my spirit’s glebe. Of old the blind bard Herve sang so sweet He made a wolf to plow his land. Sidney Lanier’s other poems: From the Flats Ode to the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Florida Sunday. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Florida Sunday From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, They shrive to priestly pines with many a sigh, Breathe salutary balms through lank-lock’d hair Of sick men’s heads, and soon […]