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English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Sea Spirit. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Sea Spirit I smile o’er the wrinkled blue­ Lo! the sea is fair, Smooth as the flow of a maiden’s hair; And the welkin’s light shines through Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue, And the little waves laugh and the […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Prisoner. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Prisoner I lash and writhe against my prison bars, And watch with sullen eyes the gaping crowd . . Give me my freedom and the burning stars, The hollow sky, and crags of moonlit cloud! Once I […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Hill Maples. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Hill Maples Here on a hill of the occident stand we shoulder to shoulder, Comrades tried and true through a mighty swath of the years! Spring harps glad laughter through us, and ministrant rains of the autumn Sing us again […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Garden in Winter. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Garden in Winter Frosty-white and cold it lies Underneath the fretful skies; Snowflakes flutter where the red Banners of the poppies spread, And the drifts are wide and deep Where the lilies fell asleep. […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Forest Path. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Forest Path Oh, the charm of idle dreaming Where the dappled shadows dance, All the leafy aisles are teeming With the lure of old romance! Down into the forest dipping, Deep and deeper as we go, One might […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Exile. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Exile We told her that her far off shore was bleak and dour to view, And that her sky was dull and mirk while ours was smiling blue. She only sighed in answer, ”It is even as ye say, But […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Choice. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Choice Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen, I care not for thee in such placid fashion! I would share widely, Life, In all thy joy and strife, Would sound thy deeps and […]

English Poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Child’s Evening Prayer. Сэмюэл Тэйлор Кольридж.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Сэмюэл Тэйлор Кольридж) A Child’s Evening Prayer Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear In strength and health for many a year; And, O! preserve my father too, And may […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Call of the Winds. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Call of the Winds Ho, come out with the wind of spring, And step it blithely in woodlands waking; Friend am I of each growing thing From the gray sod into sunshine breaking; Mine is the magic of […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Bridal. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Bridal Last night a pale young Moon was wed Unto the amorous, eager Sea; Her maiden veil of mist she wore His kingly purple vesture, he. With her a bridal train of stars Walked sisterly through shadows dim, […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Sunrise Along Shore. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Sunrise Along Shore Athwart the harbor lingers yet The ashen gleam of breaking day, And where the guardian cliffs are set The noiseless shadows steal away; But all the winnowed eastern sky Is flushed with many a tender hue, And spears […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Spring Song. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Spring Song Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on the mouth. In the dreamy vale of beeches Fair and faint is woven mist, […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. September. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) September Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days Gleaned by the year in autumn’s harvest ways, With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember, Some crimson poppy of a late delight Atoning in its splendor for […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Sea Sunset. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Sea Sunset A gallant city has been builded far In the pied heaven, Bannered with crimson, sentinelled by star Of crystal even; Around a harbor of the twilight glowing, With jubilant waves about its gateways flowing A city […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Out o’Doors. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Out o’Doors There’s a gypsy wind across the harvest land, Let us fare forth with it lightly hand in hand; Where cloud shadows blow across the sunwarm waste, And the first red leaves are falling let us haste, For the waning […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. On the Bay. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) On the Bay When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore, And frets the reef with its windy sallies, And the dawn’s white light is threading once more The purple firs in the landward valleys, While yet the […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. In the Days of the Golden Rod. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) In the Days of the Golden Rod Across the meadow in brooding shadow I walk to drink of the autumn’s wine­ The charm of story, the artist’s glory, To-day on these silvering hills is mine; On height, in hollow, where’er I […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. In Memory of Maggie. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) In Memory of Maggie A pussy-cat who was the household pet for seventeen years. Naught but a little cat, you say; Yet we remember her, A creature loving, loyal, kind, With merry, mellow purr; The […]

English Poetry. John Clare. The Flitting. Джон Клэр.

John Clare (Джон Клэр) The Flitting I’ve left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place; The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face. I miss the hazel’s happy green, The blue bell’s quiet hanging blooms, Where envy’s sneer […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. In Lovers’ Lane. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) In Lovers’ Lane I know a place for loitering feet Deep in the valley where the breeze Makes melody in lichened boughs, And murmurs low love-litanies. There slender harebells nod and dream, And pale wild roses offer up The […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. In an Old Town Garden. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) In an Old Town Garden Shut from the clamor of the street By an old wall with lichen grown, It holds apart from jar and fret A peace and beauty all its own. The freshness of the springtime rains […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Harbor Moonrise. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Harbor Moonrise There is never a wind to sing o’er the sea On its dimpled bosom that holdeth in fee Wealth of silver and magicry; And the harbor is like to an ebon cup With mother-o’-pearl to […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Harbor Dawn. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Harbor Dawn There’s a hush and stillness calm and deep, For the waves have wooed all the winds to sleep In the shadow of headlands bold and steep; But some gracious spirit has taken the cup Of the crystal sky and […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Gratitude. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Gratitude I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought That in words well chosen thou gavest to me, Deep in the life of my soul it has wrought With its own rare essence to ever imbue me, To gleam like […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Genius. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Genius A hundred generations have gone into its making, With all their love and tenderness, with all their dreams and tears; Their vanished joy and pleasure, their pain and their heart-breaking, Have colored this rare blossom of the long-unfruitful years. […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. For Little Things. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) For Little Things Last night I looked across the hills And through an arch of darkling pine Low-swung against a limpid west I saw a young moon shine. And as I gazed there blew a wind, Loosed where the […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Before Storm. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Before Storm There’s a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman, The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman’s cry, And the deeps beyond the bar are moaning with evil presage Of […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. At the Long Sault. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) At the Long Sault A prisoner under the stars I lie, With no friend near; To-morrow they lead me forth to die, The stake is ready, the torments set, They will pay in full their deadly debt; […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. At Nightfall. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) At Nightfall The dark is coming o’er the world, my playmate, And the fields where poplars stand are very still, All our groves of green delight have been invaded, There are voices quite unknown upon the hill; The wind […]

English Poetry. John Clare. Death. Джон Клэр.

John Clare (Джон Клэр) Death Why should man’s high aspiring mind Burn in him with so proud a breath, When all his haughty views can find In this world yields to death? The fair, the brave, the vain, the wise, The rich, the poor, the great, and small, […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. An April Night. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) An April Night The moon comes up o’er the deeps of the woods, And the long, low dingles that hide in the hills, Where the ancient beeches are moist with buds Over the pools and the whimpering rills; And […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Day in the Open. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Day in the Open Ho, a day Whereon we may up and away, With a fetterless wind that is out on the downs, And there piping a call to the fallow and shore, Where the sea evermore Surgeth over the gray […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Mother. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) The Mother Here I lean over you, small son, sleeping Warm in my arms, And I con to my heart all your dew-fresh charms, As you lie close, close in my hungry hold… Your hair like a miser’s dream of gold, And […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Forever. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) Forever I With you I shall ever be; Over land and sea My thoughts will companion you; With yours shall my laughter chime, And my step keep time In the dusk and dew With yours in blithesome rhyme; In all of […]

English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. A Request. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери) A Request When I am dead I would that ye make my bed On that low-lying, windy waste by the sea, Where the silvery grasses rustle and lisp; There, where the crisp Foam-flakes shall fly over me, And murmurs creep From the […]

English Poetry. Robert Burns. On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment. Роберт Бернс. Лорду Галлоуэю, пригрозившему испортить жизнь Роберту Бернсу за его эпиграммы

Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Spare me thy vengeance, Galloway, In quiet let me live: I ask no kindness at thy hand, For thou hast none to give. 1793 Перевод на русский язык Лорду Галлоуэю, пригрозившему испортить жизнь Роберту Бернсу за […]

English Poetry. Robert Burns. On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway. Роберт Бернс. В тот день, когда я увидел прекрасную усадьбу лорда Галлоуэя

Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway What dost thou in that mansion fair? Flit, Galloway, and find Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, The picture of thy mind! 1793 Перевод на русский язык В тот день, когда я увидел прекрасную усадьбу лорда Галлоуэя […]

English Poetry. Robert Burns. On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat. Роберт Бернс. В тот день, когда лэрд Кардонесс показал нам свою усадьбу

Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat We grant they’re thine, those beauties all, So lovely in our eye; Keep them, thou eunuch, Cardoness, For others to enjoy! 1794 Перевод на русский язык В тот день, когда лэрд Кардонесс показал нам свою усадьбу Ты […]

English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Spring Star. Эмма Лазарус.

Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Spring Star I. Over the lamp-lit street, Trodden by hurrying feet, Where mostly pulse and beat Life’s throbbing veins, See where the April star, Blue-bright as sapphires are, Hangs in deep heavens far, Waxes and wanes. Strangely alive it seems, Darting keen, […]

English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. A June Night. Эмма Лазарус.

Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) A June Night Ten o’clock: the broken moon Hangs not yet a half hour high, Yellow as a shield of brass, In the dewy air of June, Poised between the vaulted sky And the ocean’s liquid glass. Earth lies in the shadow still; […]