English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Birthday Song. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Birthday Song To S. G. For ever wave, for ever float and shine Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine Wherein I dreamed that time was like a vine, A creeping rose, that clomb a height of dread Out of […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Ballad of the Trees and the Master. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Ballad of the Trees and the Master Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar Is in the Land. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar Is in the Land I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And he lived pretty much by gittin’ of loans, And his mules was nuthin’ […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. To Ellen Terry. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) To Ellen Terry Nay, bring forth none but daughters: daughters young, The doubles of yourself; with face as fair, Bearing as candid, gait as debonair, And voice as deeply, musically strung: That the less fortunate age, from this age sprung, In those transmitted gleams […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Church an’ Happy Zunday. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Church an’ Happy Zunday Ah! ev’ry day mid bring a while O’ eäse vrom all woone’s ceäre an’ tweil, The welcome evenèn, when ’tis sweet Vor tired friends wi’ weary veet, But litsome hearts o’ love, to meet; An’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Uncle out o’ Debt an’ out o’ Danger. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Uncle out o’ Debt an’ out o’ Danger Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead, The leäzes an’ the bits o’ mead, Besides the orcha’d in his prime, An’ copse-wood vor the winter time. His wold black meäre, that draw’d his […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. A Ghost. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. A Ghost Eclogue. Jem an’ Dick. JEM. This is a darkish evenèn; b’ye a-feärd O’ zights? Theäse leäne’s a-haunted, I’ve a heärd. DICK. No, I be’nt much a-feär’d. If vo’k don’t strive To over-reach me while […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Father Come Hwome. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Father Come Hwome Eclogue. John, Wife an’ Child. CHILD. O mother, mother! be the teäties done? Here’s father now a-comèn down the track. Hes got his nitch o’ wood upon his back, An’ such a speäker in en! […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Meäry-Ann’s Child. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Meäry-Ann’s Child Meary-Ann wer alwone wi’ her beäby in earms, In her house wi’ the trees over head, Vor her husban’ wer out in the night an’ the storms, In his business a-tweilèn vor bread; An’ she, as the wind in […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Lullaby. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Lullaby The rook’s nest do rock on the tree-top Where vew foes can stand; The martin’s is high, an’ is deep In the steep cliff o’ zand. But thou, love, a-sleepèn where vootsteps Mid come to thy bed, Hast father an’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Woak wer Good Enough Woonce. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Woak wer Good Enough Woonce Ees: now mahogany’s the goo. An’ good wold English woak won’t do. I wish vo’k always mid avvword Hot meals upon a woakèn bwoard. As good as thik that took my cup An’ trencher all my […]
English Poetry. James Beattie. Verses occasioned by the Death of the Revd. Mr. Charles Churchill. Джеймс Битти.
James Beattie (Джеймс Битти) Verses occasioned by the Death of the Revd. Mr. Charles Churchill CHURCHILL begone! with thee may discord’s fire, That hatch’d thy salamander-fame, expire! Fame, dirty idol of the brainless crowd, What half-made mooncalf can mistake for good? Since shar’d by knaves of high and […]
English Poetry. James Beattie. An Eclogue. In the Manner of Mr. Gay. Джеймс Битти.
James Beattie (Джеймс Битти) An Eclogue. In the Manner of Mr. Gay THOMAS. MARTHA. All by the side of a clear winter-fire, A swain and nymph, whom mutual flames inspire, Alternate sung: Ye Muses, all and some, Tho’ long the journey, from Parnassus come; Be it your […]
English Poetry. James Beattie. On reading the Declaration of War in 1756. Джеймс Битти.
James Beattie (Джеймс Битти) On reading the Declaration of War in 1756 While Peace uprear’d aloft her graceful head, And o’er the world her balmy blessings shed: While laurel’d Science flourish’d in her reign: While undisturb’d the merchant plough’d the main; Wide o’er the trackless ocean ply’d the […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Ave Maria. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Ave Maria In the ages of Faith, before the day When men were too proud to weep or pray, There stood in a red-roofed Breton town Snugly nestled ‘twixt sea and down, A chapel for simple souls to meet, Nightly, and sing with voices […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. To Charlotte Cushman. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) To Charlotte Cushman Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam Into the slumb’rous tissue of some stream, Till his bright self o’er his bright copy seem Fulfillment dropping on a come-true dream; So in this night of art thy soul doth […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. To Beethoven. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) To Beethoven In o’er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music’s bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect rose of tone. O Psalmist of the weak, the strong, O Troubadour of love and strife, Co-Litanist of right and […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. To Baynard Taylor. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) To Baynard Taylor To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O’erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, And hear the beating of the hearts of trees, And think the thoughts that lilies speak in white By greenwood […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Tournament. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Tournament Joust First. I. Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies, And the knights still hurried amain To the tournament under the ladies’ eyes, Where the jousters were Heart and Brain. II. Flourished the trumpets: entered […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Stirrup-Cup. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Stirrup-Cup Death, thou’rt a cordial old and rare: Look how compounded, with what care! Time got his wrinkles reaping thee Sweet herbs from all antiquity. David to thy distillage went, Keats, and Gotama excellent, Omar Khayyam, and Chaucer bright, And Shakespeare […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Revenge of Hamish. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Revenge of Hamish It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay; And all of a sudden the sinister smell of a man, Awaft on a wind-shift, wavered and ran Down the hill-side and sifted along through the bracken […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Power of Prayer. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Power of Prayer or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, HE made dese black-jack roots to twis’ into a seat. Umph, dar! De Lord have mussy on dis blin’ […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Palm and the Pine. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Palm and the Pine From the German of Heine. In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone, Upon a wintry height; It sleeps: around it snows have thrown A covering of white. It dreams forever of a Palm That, far i’ […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Jacquerie. A Fragment. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Jacquerie. A Fragment Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, And flamed, one brilliant instant, on the world, Then back into the historic moat was hurled And Night was […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Harlequin of Dreams. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Harlequin of Dreams Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of Dreams, dost leap Upon my spirit’s stage. Then Sight and Sound, Then Space and Time, then Language, Mete and Bound, […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Dream Of England. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Dream Of England I had a dream of England. Wild and weird, The billows ravened round her, and the wrack, Darkening and dwindling, blotted out the track, Then flashed on her a bolt that scorched and seared. She, writhing in her ruin, rolled, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. The Dove. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) The Dove If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn, Shouldst call along the curving sphere, ”Remain, Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me not in scorn!” With soft halloos of heavenly love and pain; – Shouldst thou, O Spring! a-cower in coverts dark, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Strange Jokes. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Strange Jokes Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad Grim squatting on a twilight road. He catcheth all that Circumstance Hath tossed to him. He curseth all who upward glance As lost to him. Once in a whimsey mood he sat And […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Special Pleading. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Special Pleading Time, hurry my Love to me: Haste, haste! Lov’st not good company? Here’s but a heart-break sandy waste ’Twixt Now and Then. Why, killing haste Were best, dear Time, for thee, for thee! Oh, would that I might divine Thy […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Rose-Morals. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Rose-Morals I. — Red. Would that my songs might be What roses make by day and night – Distillments of my clod of misery Into delight. Soul, could’st thou bare thy breast As yon red rose, and dare the day, All […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Resurrection. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Resurrection Sometimes in morning sunlights by the river Where in the early fall long grasses wave, Light winds from over the moorland sink and shiver And sigh as if just blown across a grave. And then I pause and listen to this […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Our Hills. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Our Hills Dear Mother-Earth Of Titan birth, Yon hills are your large breasts, and often I Have climbed to their top-nipples, fain and dry To drink my mother’s-milk so near the sky. O ye hill-stains, Red, for all rains! The blood that […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Opposition. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Opposition Of fret, of dark, of thorn, of chill, Complain no more; for these, O heart, Direct the random of the will As rhymes direct the rage of art. The lute’s fixt fret, that runs athwart The strain and purpose of the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill Fine-tissued as her finger-tips, and white As all her thoughts; in shape like shields of prize, As if before young Violet’s dreaming eyes Still blazed the two great Theban bucklers bright That swayed the […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. On a Palmetto. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) On a Palmetto Through all that year-scarred agony of height, Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands His wandy circlet with his bladed bands Dividing every wind, or loud or light, To termless hymns of love and old despite, Yon tall palmetto in […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Ode to the Johns Hopkins University How tall among her sisters, and how fair, – How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, ’mid wrinkled Matres of old lands Our youngest Alma Mater modest stands! In four brief cycles round the punctual sun […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Love’s Trinity. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Love’s Trinity SOUL, heart, and body, we thus singly name, Are not in love divisible and distinct, But each with each inseparably link’d. One is not honour, and the other shame, But burn as closely fused as fuel, heat, and flame. They do […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Nine from Eight. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Nine from Eight I was drivin’ my two-mule waggin, With a lot o’ truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin’ (Which my cotton was ready to bale), And I come to a place on the side o’ the pike Whar a […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Night. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Night Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, East and West, alway. Like the round pearl that Egypt drunk in wine, The sun half sinks i’ the brimming, rosy […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. My Springs. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) My Springs In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know Two springs that with unbroken flow Forever pour their lucent streams Into my soul’s far Lake of Dreams. Not larger than two eyes, they lie Beneath the many-changing sky And […]