English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jim Brown. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jim Brown While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are For singing ”Turkey in the straw” or ”There is a fountain filled with blood” – (Like Rile Potter used to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Nicholas Bindle. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Nicholas Bindle Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens, When my estate was probated and everyone knew How small a fortune I left?– You who hounded me in life, To give, give, give to the churches, to the poor, To the village!–me […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. J. Milton Miles. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) J. Milton Miles Whenever the Presbyterian bell Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell. But when its sound was mingled With the sound of the Methodist, the Christian, The Baptist and the Congregational, I could no longer […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Godwin James. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Godwin James Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp Near Manila, following the flag, You were not wounded by the greatness of a dream, Or destroyed by ineffectual work, Or driven to madness by Satanic snags; You were not torn […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hon. Henry Bennett. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hon. Henry Bennett It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death, with malice of heart. For I was seventy, she was thirty-five, And I wore myself to a shadow trying […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Thomas Ross, Jr.. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Thomas Ross, Jr. This I saw with my own eyes: A cliff-swallow Made her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank There near Miller’s Ford. But no sooner were the young hatched Than a snake crawled up to the nest […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Autumn Song. Данте Габриэль Россетти. При паденьи листов
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Autumn Song Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how sleep seems a goodly thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf? And how […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Homer Clapp. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Homer Clapp Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before that; And just with a distant clasp of the hand She bade me good-night, as I brought her home From the skating […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. John Wasson. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) John Wasson Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina Through which Rebecca followed me wailing, wailing, One child in her arms, and three that ran along wailing, Lengthening out the farewell to me off to the war with […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Paul McNeely. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Paul McNeely Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane! How you stole in the room (where I lay so ill) In your nurse’s cap and linen cuffs, And took my hand and said with a smile: ”You are not so ill — you’ll […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Frank Drummer. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Frank Drummer Out of a cell into this darkened space – The end at twenty-five! My tongue could not speak what stirred within me, And the village thought me a fool. Yet at the start there was a clear vision, A […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Charles Webster. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Charles Webster The pine woods on the hill, And the farmhouse miles away, Showed clear as though behind a lens Under a sky of peacock blue! But a blanket of cloud by afternoon Muffled the earth. And you walked the road […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Imanuel Ehrenhardt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Imanuel Ehrenhardt I began with Sir William Hamilton’s lectures. Then studied Dugald Stewart; And then John Locke on the Understanding, And then Descartes, Fichte and Schelling, Kant and then Schopenhauer – Books I borrowed from old Judge Somers. All read with […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Elijah Browning. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Elijah Browning I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east and swept them as leaves, Driving some up the slopes…. All was changed. Here were flying lights, and mystic […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Arlo Will. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Arlo Will Did you ever see an alligator Come up to the air from the mud, Staring blindly under the full glare of noon? Have you seen the stabled horses at night Tremble and start back at the sight of a […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Lois Spears. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Lois Spears Here lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of Myrtle and Virgil Spears, Children with clear eyes and sound limbs – (I was born blind) I was the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. William Goode. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) William Goode To all in the village I seemed, no doubt, To go this way and that way, aimlessly. But here by the river you can see at twilight The soft-winged bats fly zig-zag here and there – They must fly […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Adam Weirauch. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Adam Weirauch I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour. I lost many friends, much time and money Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor Whedon Denounced as the candidate of gamblers and anarchists. Then Armour started to ship dressed meat to Spoon River, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mabel Osborne. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mabel Osborne Your red blossoms amid green leaves Are drooping, beautiful geranium! But you do not ask for water. You cannot speak! You do not need to speak – Everyone knows that you are dying of thirst, Yet they do not […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Herman Altman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Herman Altman Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men As I was known in life among […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Amos Sibley. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Amos Sibley Not character, not fortitude, not patience Were mine, the which the village thought I had In bearing with my wife, while preaching on, Doing the work God chose for me. I loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton. […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hildrup Tubbs. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hildrup Tubbs I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and was defeated. Next I used my rebel strength To capture the standard of my old party – And I […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Caroline Branson. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Caroline Branson With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, As often before, the April fields till star-light Silkened over with viewless gauze the darkness Under the cliff, our trysting place in the wood, Where the brook turns! Had […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Alfred Moir. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Alfred Moir Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, And rotted down by indifference And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones? Why, with all of my errant steps Did I miss the fate of Willard Fluke? And why, though I stood at […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Alfonso Churchill. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Alfonso Churchill They laughed at me as ”Prof. Moon,” As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst Of knowing about the stars. They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains, And the thrilling heat and cold, And the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Isaiah Beethoven. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Isaiah Beethoven They told me I had three months to live, So I crept to Bernadotte, And sat by the mill for hours and hours Where the gathered waters deeply moving Seemed not to move: O world, that’s you! You are […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Washington McNeely. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Washington McNeely Rich, honored by my fellow citizens, The father of many children, born of a noble mother, All raised there In the great mansion-house, at the edge of town. Note the cedar tree on the lawn! I sent all the […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Mutability. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Mutability They say there’s a high windless world and strange, Out of the wash of days and temporal tide, Where Faith and Good, Wisdom and Truth abide, Æterna corpora, subject to no change. There the sure suns of these pale shadows move; There […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. George Trimble. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) George Trimble Do you remember when I stood on the steps Of the Court House and talked free-silver, And the single-tax of Henry George? Then do you remember that, when the Peerless Leader Lost the first battle, I began to talk […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jonathan Houghton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jonathan Houghton There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a cowbell far away, And the voice of a plowman on Shipley’s hill. The forest beyond the orchard is still […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Archibald Higbie. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Archibald Higbie I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you, I was ashamed of you. I despised you As the place of my nativity. And there in Rome, among the artists, Speaking Italian, speaking French, I seemed to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jack McGuire. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jack McGuire They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I was going peacefully home, Carrying my jug, a little drunk, When Logan, the marshal, halted me, Called me a […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. The Spooniad. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) The Spooniad [The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but unfortunately did not live to complete even the first book. The fragment was found among his papers by William […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Le Roy Goldman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Le Roy Goldman ”What will you do when you come to die, If all your life long you have rejected Jesus, And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?” Over and over I said, I, the revivalist. Ah, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jonathan Swift Somers. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jonathan Swift Somers After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The power to interpret glances, silences, The pauses in momentous transformations, The genius of divination and prophecy; So that […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Walter Simmons. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Walter Simmons My parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with clocks And little engines with tracks to run on And telephones of cans […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Indignation Jones. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Indignation Jones You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock? That I was purer blooded than the white trash here? And of more direct lineage than the New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River? You would […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Lydia Puckett. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Lydia Puckett Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war The day before Curl Trenary Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett For stealing hogs. But that’s not the reason he turned a soldier. He caught me running with Lucius Atherton. We […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Wayfarers. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) The Wayfarers Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place Made fair by one another for a while. Now, for a god-speed, one last mad embrace; The long road then, unlit by your faint smile. Ah! the long road! and you so far […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Sam Hookey. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Sam Hookey I ran away from home with the circus, Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada, The lion tamer. One time, having starved the lions For more than a day, I entered the cage and began to beat Brutus And […]