English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Marsh Hymns. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Marsh Hymns Between Dawn and Sunrise. Were silver pink, and had a soul, Which soul were shy, which shyness might A visible influence be, and roll Through heaven and earth — ’twere thou, O light! O rhapsody of the wraith of red, […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Laus Mariae. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Laus Mariae Across the brook of Time man leaping goes On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise Fixed, memorable, midst broad shallow flows Of neutrals, kill-times, sleeps, indifferencies. So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps: Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Laughter in the Senate. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Laughter in the Senate In the South lies a lonesome, hungry Land; He huddles his rags with a cripple’s hand; He mutters, prone on the barren sand, What time his heart is breaking. He lifts his bare head from the ground; He listens […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. June Dreams, in January. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) June Dreams, in January ”So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ardors and sun-loves and subtle thrills; ”Throb, Beautiful! while the fervent hours exhale As kisses faint-blown from thy finger-tips […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Jones’s Porvate Argyment. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Jones’s Porvate Argyment That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, He had this pint about him: He’d swear with a hundred sighs and groans, That farmers MUST stop gittin’ loans, And git along without ’em: That bankers, warehousemen, and sich Was […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. In the Foam. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) In the Foam Life swelleth in a whitening wave, And dasheth thee and me apart. I sweep out seaward: — be thou brave. And reach the shore, Sweetheart. Beat back the backward-thrusting sea. Thy weak white arm his blows may thwart, Christ buffet […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. In Absence. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) In Absence I. The storm that snapped our fate’s one ship in twain Hath blown my half o’ the wreck from thine apart. O Love! O Love! across the gray-waved main To thee-ward strain my eyes, my arms, my heart. I ask my […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Birthday Present. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Birthday Present ”Say what, to please you, you would have me be.” Then listen, dear! I fain would have you very fair to see, And sweet to hear. `You should have Aphrodite’s form and face, With Dian’s tread; And something of Minerva’s […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. From the Flats. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) From the Flats What heartache — ne’er a hill! Inexorable, vapid, vague and chill The drear sand-levels drain my spirit low. With one poor word they tell me all they know; Whereat their stupid tongues, to tease my pain, Do drawl it o’er again […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Clover. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Clover Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester’s favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one – A grave good-morrow to your Graces, all, Fair tilth and fruitful seasons! Lo, how still! The midmorn empties you […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Barnacles. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Barnacles My soul is sailing through the sea, But the Past is heavy and hindereth me. The Past hath crusted cumbrous shells That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells About my soul. The huge waves wash, the high waves roll, Each barnacle clingeth […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Baby Charley. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Baby Charley He’s fast asleep. See how, O Wife, Night’s finger on the lip of life Bids whist the tongue, so prattle-rife, Of busy Baby Charley. One arm stretched backward round his head, Five little toes from out the bed Just showing, like […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. At First. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) At First To Charlotte Cushman My crippled sense fares bow’d along His uncompanioned way, And wronged by death pays life with wrong And I wake by night and dream by day. And the Morning seems but fatigued Night That hath wept his […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Sunrise Song. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Sunrise Song Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands Pourest thy pilgrim’s tale, discoursing still Thy silver passages of sacred lands, With news of Sepulchre and Dolorous Hill, Canst thou be he that, yester-sunset warm, Purple with Paynim rage and wrack […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Song of the Future. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Song of the Future Sail fast, sail fast, Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams; Sweep lordly o’er the drowned Past, Fly glittering through the sun’s strange beams; Sail fast, sail fast. Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea With […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Song of Eternity in Time. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Song of Eternity in Time Once, at night, in the manor wood My Love and I long silent stood, Amazed that any heavens could Decree to part us, bitterly repining. My Love, in aimless love and grief, Reached forth and drew aside a […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L.. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. By Sidney and Clifford Lanier. O wish that’s vainer than the plash Of these wave-whimsies on the shore: ”Give us a pearl to fill the gash – God, let our dead friend live once more!” […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Florida Ghost. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Florida Ghost Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines — a surf asleep on land – And the great Gulf at play, Past far-off palms that filmed to nought, Or in and out the […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. A Farewell To Youth. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Farewell To Youth Ere that I say farewell to youth, and take The homely road that leads to life’s decline, Let me be sure again I shall not pine To taste the bliss you bid me to forsake: That Spring’s returning raptures will […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. A Dedication. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) A Dedication To Charlotte Cushman As Love will carve dear names upon a tree, Symbol of gravure on his heart to be, So thought I thine with loving text to set In the growth and substance of my canzonet; But, writing […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. «Green Grow the Rashes O…». Роберт Бернс. «Камыш, камыш, о чём шумишь…»
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) «Green Grow the Rashes O…» Green grow the rashes O, Green grow the rashes O; The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, Are spent amang the lasses O! There’s nought but care on ev’ry han’, In ev’ry hour that passes O; What signifies […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Pekingese. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Pekingese For a picture This Pekingese, that makes the sand-grains spin, Is digging little tunnels to Pekin: Dream him emerging in a porcelain cave Where wounded dragons stain a pearly wave. Elinor Wylie’s other poems: The Prinkin’ Leddie Poor Earth Quarrel The […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Village Mystery. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Village Mystery The woman in the pointed hood And cloak blue-gray like a pigeon’s wing, Whose orchard climbs to the balsam-wood, Has done a cruel thing. To her back door-step came a ghost, A girl who had been […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Venetian Interior. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Venetian Interior Allegra, rising from her canopied dreams, Slides both white feet across the slanted beams Which lace the peacock jalousies: behold An idol of fine clay, with feet of gold Elinor Wylie’s other poems: Poor Earth Quarrel Atavism The […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Valentine. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Valentine Too high, too high to pluck My heart shall swing. A fruit no bee shall suck, No wasp shall sting. If on some night of cold It falls to ground In apple-leaves of gold I’ll […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Prinkin’ Leddie. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Prinkin’ Leddie The Hielan’ lassies are a’ for spinnin’, The Lowlan’ lassies for prinkin’ and pinnin’; My daddie w’u’d chide me, an’ so w’u’d my minnie If I s’u’d bring hame sic a prinkin’ leddie. Now haud your […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Lost Path. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Lost Path The garden’s full of scented wallflowers, And, save that these stir faintly, nothing stirs; Only a distant bell in hollow chime Cried out just now for far-forgoten time, And three reverberate words the great bell spoke. […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Falcon. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Falcon Why should my sleepy heart be taught To whistle mocking-bird replies? This is another bird you’ve caught, Soft-feathered, with a falcon’s eyes. The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. The Fairy Goldsmith. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) The Fairy Goldsmith Here’s a wonderful thing, A humming-bird’s wing In hammered gold, And store well chosen Of snowflakes frozen In crystal cold. Black onyx cherries And mistletoe berries Of chrysoprase, Jade buds, tight […]
English Poetry. Alfred Austin. Victoria. Альфред Остин.
Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) Victoria The lark went up, the mower whet his scythe, On golden meads kine ruminating lay, And all the world felt young again and blithe, Just as to-day. The partridge shook her covey from her wings, And limped along the grass; on leaf […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Sea Lullaby. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Sea Lullaby The old moon is tarnished With smoke of the flood, The dead leaves are varnished With colour like blood. A treacherous smiler With teeth white as milk, A savage beguiler In sheathings of […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Primavera in the North. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Primavera in the North She has danced for leagues and leagues, Over thorns and thistles, Prancing to a tune of Griegg’s Performed on willow whistles. Antelopes behold her, dazed, Velvet-eyed, and furry; Polar flowers, crackle-glazed, Snap […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Pretty Words. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Pretty Words Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken swish, And tender ones, like downy-feathred birds: Words shy and dappled, deep-eyed deer in herds, Come to my hand, and playful […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Now Let No Charitable Hope. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) * * * Now let no charitable hope Confuse my mind with images Of eagle and of antelope: I am by nature none of these. I was, being human, born alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Nancy. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Nancy You are a rose, but set with sharpest spine; You are a pretty bird that pecks at me; You are a little squirrel on a tree, Pelting me with the prickly fruit of the pine; A diamond, torn […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Love Song. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Love Song Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake’s articulated spine. Such elective elements Educate the eye and lip With one’s refreshing innocence, The other’s claim to scholarship. […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Little Joke. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Little Joke Stripping an almond tree in flower The wise apothecary’s skill A single drop of lethal power From perfect sweetness can distill From bitterness in efflorescence, With murderous poisons packed therein; The poet draws pellucid essence […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Incantation. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Incantation A white well In a black cave; A bright shell In a dark wave. A white rose Black brambles hood; Smooth bright snows In a dark wood. A flung white glove In a […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Death and the Maiden. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Death and the Maiden BARCAROLE ON THE STYX Fair youth with the rose at your lips, A riddle is hid in your eyes; Discard conversational quips, Give over elaborate disguise. The rose’s funeral breath Confirms by intuitive fears; […]
English Poetry. Elinor Wylie. Curious Circumstance. Элинор Уайли.
Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Curious Circumstance The sailorman’s child And the girl of the witch– They can’t be defiled By touching pitch. The sailorman’s son Had a ship for a nursery; The other one Was baptised by sorcery. Although […]