English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Love’s Prayer. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Love’s Prayer Beloved, this the heart I offer thee Is purified from old idolatry, From outworn hopes, and from the lingering stain Of passion’s dregs, by penitential pain. Take thou it, then, and fill it up […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. In Port. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) In Port Out of the fires of the sunset come we again to our own We have girdled the world in our sailing under many an orient star; Still to our battered canvas the scents of the spice gales cling, And […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. In an Old Farmhouse. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) In an Old Farmhouse Outside the afterlight’s lucent rose Is smiting the hills and brimming the valleys, And shadows are stealing across the snows; From the mystic gloom of the pineland alleys. Glamour of mingled night and day […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. If Mary Had Known. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) * * * If Mary had known When she held her Babe’s hands in her own Little hands that were tender and white as a rose, All dented with dimples from finger to wrist, Such as mothers have kissed That one […]
English Poetry. William Cowper. Afflictions Sanctified by the Word. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) Afflictions Sanctified by the Word Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I think upon it all the day. What are the mines of shining wealth, The strength of youth, the […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Fancies. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Fancies Surely the flowers of a hundred springs Are simply the souls of beautiful things! The poppies aflame with gold and red Were the kisses of lovers in days that are fled. The purple pansies […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Echo Dell. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Echo Dell In a lone valley fair and far, Where many sweet beguilements are, I know a spot to lag and dream Through damask morns and noons agleam; For feet fall lightly on the fern And twilight is a wondrous thing, […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Down Stream. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Down Stream Comrades, up! Let us row down stream in this first rare dawnlight, While far in the clear north-west the late moon whitens and wanes; Before us the sun will rise, deep-purpling headland and islet, It is well to meet […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Companioned. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Companioned I walked to-day, but not alone, Adown a windy, sea-girt lea, For memory, spendthrift of her charm, Peopled the silent lands for me. The faces of old comradeship In golden youth were round my way, And in the […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Down Home. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Down Home Down home to-night the moonshine falls Across a hill with daisies pied, The pear tree by the garden gate Beckons with white arms like a bride. A savor as of trampled fern Along the whispering meadow stirs, […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Come, Rest Awhile. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Come, Rest Awhile Come, rest awhile, and let us idly stray In glimmering valleys, cool and far away. Come from the greedy mart, the troubled street, And listen to the music, faint and sweet, That […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. By an Autumn Fire. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) By an Autumn Fire Now at our casement the wind is shrilling, Poignant and keen And all the great boughs of the pines between It is harping a lone and hungering strain To the eldritch weeping of […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. An Autumn Evening. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) An Autumn Evening Dark hills against a hollow crocus sky Scarfed with its crimson pennons, and below The dome of sunset long, hushed valleys lie Cradling the twilight, where the lone winds blow And wake among the harps of […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Among the Pines. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Among the Pines Here let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken Music aeolian of wind in the boughs of pine, Timbrel of falling waters, sounds all soft and sonorous, Worshipful litanies sung at a bannered shrine. Deep let […]
English Poetry. William Cowper. Epitaphium Alterum. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) Epitaphium Alterum Hic etiam jacet, Qui totum novennium vixit, Puss. Siste paulisper, Qui præteriturus es, Et tecum sic reputa– Hunc neque canis venaticus, Nec plumbum missile, Nec laqueus, Nec imbres nimii, Confecêre: Tamen mortuus est– Et moriar ego. William Cowper’s other poems: The Christian […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Winter Dawn. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Winter Dawn Above the marge of night a star still shines, And on the frosty hills the sombre pines Harbor an eerie wind that crooneth low Over the glimmering wastes of virgin snow. Through the […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Day Off. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Day Off Let us put awhile away All the cares of work-a-day, For a golden time forget, Task and worry, toil and fret, Let us take a day to dream In the meadow by the stream. […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. What Dick an’ I did. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. What Dick an’ I did Last week the Browns ax’d nearly all The naïghbours to a randy, An’ left us out o’t, girt an’ small, Vor all we liv’d so handy; An’ zoo I zaid to Dick, “We’ll trudge, When they […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Farmer’s Sons. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. Farmer’s Sons Ov all the chaps a-burnt so brown By zunny hills an’ hollors, Ov all the whindlèn chaps in town Wi’ backs so weak as rollers, There’s narn that’s half so light o’ heart, (I’ll bet, if thou’t zay […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. A Bit o’ Fun. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. A Bit o’ Fun We thought you woulden leäve us quite So soon as what you did last night; Our fun jist got up to a height As you about got hwome. The friskèn chaps did skip about, An’ cou’se the […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. The Vrost. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. The Vrost Come, run up hwome wi’ us to night, Athirt the vield a-vroze so white, Where vrosty sheädes do lie below The winter ricks a-tipp’d wi’ snow, An’ lively birds, wi’ waggèn taïls, Do hop upon the icy raïls. An’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Farmer’s Woldest Dā’ter. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Sundry Pieces. The Farmer’s Woldest Dā’ter No, no! I ben’t a-runnèn down The pretty maïden’s o’ the town, Nor wishèn o’m noo harm; But she that I would marry vu’st, To sheäre my good luck or my crust, ’S a-bred up at […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Fall. Two Farms in Woone. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Fall. Two Farms in Woone Eclogue Robert an’ Thomas. ROBERT. You’ll lose your meäster soon, then, I do vind; He’s gwaïn to leäve his farm, as I do larn, At Miëlmas; an’ I be zorry vor’n. What, is he […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Winter. Fanny’s Be’th-day. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Winter. Fanny’s Be’th-day How merry, wi’ the cider cup, We kept poor Fanny’s be’th-day up! An’ how our busy tongues did run An’ hands did wag, a-meäkèn fun! What plaÿsome anticks zome ō’s done! An’ how, a-reelèn roun’ an’ roun’, We beät […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Fall. The Common a-took in. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Fall. The Common a-took in Eclogue Thomas an’ John. THOMAS. Good morn t’ye, John. How b’ye? how b’ye? Zoo you be gwaïn to market, I do zee. Why, you be quite a-lwoaded wi’ your geese. JOHN. Ees, […]
English Poetry. William Cowper. A Comparison. Уильям Купер.
William Cowper (Уильям Купер) A Comparison The lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay; Alike irrevocable both when past, And a wide […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. Nightmare Number Three. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) Nightmare Number Three We had expected everything but revolt And I kind of wonder myself when they started thinking– But there’s no dice in that now. I’ve heard fellow say They must have planned it for years and maybe they did. Looking […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. Lee. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) Lee The night had fallen on the narrow tent. –Deep night of Virginia summer when the stars Are burning wax in the near, languid sky And the soft flowers hardly close all night But bathe in darkness, as a woman bathes In […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. 1936. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) 1936 All night they marched, the infantrymen under pack, But the hands gripping the rifles were naked bone And the hollow pits of the eyes stared, vacant and black, When the moonlight shone. The gas mask lay like a blot on […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. The Mountain Whippoorwill. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) The Mountain Whippoorwill Or, How Hill-Billy Jim Won The Great Fiddler’s Prize (A Georgia Romance) Up in the mountains, it’s lonesome all the time, (Sof win’ slewin’ thu’ the sweet-potato vine). Up in the mountains, it’s lonesome for a […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. The Congressmen Came out to See Bull Run. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) * * * The congressmen came out to see Bull Run, The congressmen who like free shows and spectacles. They brought their wives and carriages along, They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. Difference. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) Difference My mind’s a map. A mad sea-captain drew it Under a flowing moon until he knew it; Winds with brass trumpets, puffy-cheeked as jugs, And states bright-patterned like Arabian rugs. “Here there be tygers.” “Here we buried Jim.” […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. With Tears They Buried You Today. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) With Tears They Buried You Today With tears they buried you to-day, But well I knew no turf could hold Your gladness long beneath the mould, Or cramp your laughter in the clay; I smiled while others wept for you Because […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. When the Fishing Boats Go Out. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the lucent skies of morning flush with dawning rose once more, And waves of golden glory break adown the sunrise shore, And o’er the arch of heaven pied films of vapor float. There’s joyance […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. When the Dark Comes Down. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) When the Dark Comes Down When the dark comes down, oh, the wind is on the sea With lisping laugh and whimper to the red reef’s threnody, The boats are sailing homeward now across the harbor bar With many a jest […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Wood Pool. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Wood Pool Here is a voice that soundeth low and far And lyricvoice of wind among the pines, Where the untroubled, glimmering waters are, And sunlight seldom shines. Elusive shadows linger shyly here, And wood-flowers blow, like pale, […]
English Poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Mathematical Problem. Сэмюэл Тэйлор Кольридж.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Сэмюэл Тэйлор Кольридж) A Mathematical Problem This is now–this was erst, Proposition the first–and Problem the first. I. On a given finite Line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. Now let A. B. […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Truce of Night. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Truce of Night Lo, it is dark, Save for the crystal spark Of a virgin star o’er the purpling lea, Or the fine, keen, silvery grace of a young Moon that is hung O’er the priest-like firs by the sea; […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Three Songs. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Three Songs The poet sang of a battle-field Where doughty deeds were done, Where stout blows rang on helm and shield And a kingdom’s fate was spun With the scarlet thread of victory, And honor from death’s grim revelry Like […]
English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Sea to the Shore. Люси Мод Монтгомери.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Sea to the Shore Lo, I have loved thee long, long have I yearned and entreated! Tell me how I may win thee, tell me how I must woo. Shall I creep to thy white feet, in guise of a […]