English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Roy Butler. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Roy Butler If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois Got at the secret of every case As well as it does a case of rape It would be the greatest court in the world. A jury, of neighbors mostly, with ”Butch” […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Captain Orlando Killion. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Captain Orlando Killion Oh, you young radicals and dreamers, You dauntless fledglings Who pass by my headstone, Mock not its record of my captaincy in the army And my faith in God! They are not denials of each other. Go by […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Treasure. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) The Treasure When colour goes home into the eyes, And lights that shine are shut again With dancing girls and sweet birds’ cries Behind the gateways of the brain; And that no-place which gave them birth, shall close The rainbow and the rose:– […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. William and Emily. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) William and Emily There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you have known passion, And the glow of youthful love, You also, after years of life Together, feel the sinking of the fire, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Tom Beatty. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Tom Beatty I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, Although by lamp-light, for thirty years, In that poker room in the opera house. And I say to you […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. English Thornton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) English Thornton Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Valley Forge, And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock, Arise! Do battle with the descendants of those Who bought land in the loop when it was waste sand, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Trainor the Druggist. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Trainor the Druggist Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact On each other, or what children will result? There were […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hannah Armstrong. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hannah Armstrong I wrote him a letter asking him for old times’ sake To discharge my sick boy from the army; But maybe he couldn’t read it. Then I went to town and had James Garber, Who wrote beautifully, write him […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Sarah Brown. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Sarah Brown Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree. The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass, The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls, But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous In the blest Nirvana […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Charlie French. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Charlie French Did you ever find out which of the boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and ”Bucky” Estil Was firing the cannon brought to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Zenas Witt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Zenas Witt I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams, And specks before my eyes, and nervous weakness. And I couldn’t remember the books I read, Like Frank Drummer who memorized page after page. And my back was weak, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Emily Sparks. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Emily Sparks Where is my boy, my boy – In what far part of the world? The boy I loved best of all in the school? – I, the teacher, the old maid, the virgin heart, Who made them all my […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dr. Siegfried Iseman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dr. Siegfried Iseman I said when they handed me my diploma, I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave and helpful to others; I said I will carry the Christian creed Into the practice of medicine! Somehow […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Home. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Home I came back late and tired last night Into my little room, To the long chair and the firelight And comfortable gloom. But as I entered softly in I saw a woman there, The line of neck and cheek and chin, […]
English Poetry. William Blake. To Winter. Уильям Блейк. К Зиме
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) To Winter ‘О Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.’ He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep Rides heavy; […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Barry Holden. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Barry Holden The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder of Zora Clemens, And I sat in the court two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Deacon Taylor. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Deacon Taylor I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon. In truth I had cirrhosis of the liver, For every noon for thirty years, I slipped behind the prescription […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Julia Miller. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Julia Miller We quarreled that morning, For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty, And I was nervous and heavy with the child Whose birth I dreaded. I thought over the last letter written me By that estranged young soul Whose […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. The Unknown. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) The Unknown Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Who lies here with no stone to mark the place. As a boy reckless and wanton, Wandering with gun in hand through the forest Near the mansion of Aaron […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Blind Jack. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Blind Jack I had fiddled all day at the county fair. But driving home ”Butch” Weldy and Jack McGuire, Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses Till they ran […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. A.D. Blood. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) A.D. Blood If you in the village think that my work was a good one, Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards, And haled old Daisy Fraser before Justice Arnett, In many a crusade to purge the people […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Fletcher McGee. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Fletcher McGee She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows, The minutes wheeled like stars. She took the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Alexander Throckmorton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Alexander Throckmorton In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could not follow my vision – Genius is wisdom and youth. Edgar Lee Masters’s […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mrs. Purkapile. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mrs. Purkapile He ran away and was gone for a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pretended […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rita Matlock Gruenberg. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rita Matlock Gruenberg Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys, And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six, Here is your little Rita at last Grown old, grown forty-nine; Here stretched on your grave under the winter stars, With the rustle […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. Ante Aram. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) Ante Aram Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper, Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies, Incense of dirges, prayers that are as holy myrrh. Ah, goddess, on thy throne of tears and faint low sighs, Weary at last to […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Petit, The Poet. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Petit, The Poet Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel– Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens– But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof. Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Ballades by the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Roger Heston. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Roger Heston Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I Argue about the freedom of the will. My favorite metaphor was Prickett’s cow Roped out to grass, and free you know as far As the length of the rope. One day […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Marie Bateson. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Marie Bateson You observe the carven hand With the index finger pointing heavenward. That is the direction, no doubt. But how shall one follow it? It is well to abstain from murder and lust, To forgive, do good to others, worship […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Robert Fulton Tanner. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Robert Fulton Tanner If a man could bite the giant hand That catchs and destroys him, As I was bitten by a rat While demonstrating my patent trap, In my hardware store that day. But a man can never avenge himself […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Lyman King. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Lyman King You may think, passer-by, that Fate Is a pit-fall outside of yourself, Around which you may walk by the use of foresight And wisdom. Thus you believe, viewing the lives of other men, As one who in God-like fashion […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rain in My Heart. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rain in My Heart There is a quiet in my heart Like on who rests from days of pain. Outside, the sparrows on the roof Are chirping in the dripping rain. Rain in my heart; rain on the roof; And memory […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Fiddler Jones. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Fiddler Jones The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must and for all your life. What do you see, a harvest ofclover? Or […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. George Gray. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) George Gray I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me – A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination But my life. For love was offered me and […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Fall. A-Haulèn o’ the Corn. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Fall. A-Haulèn o’ the Corn Ah! yesterday, you know, we carr’d The piece o’ corn in Zidelèn Plot, An’ work’d about it pretty hard, An’ vound the weather pretty hot. ’Twer all a-tied an’ zet upright In tidy hile o’ Monday night; […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Fall. Corn a-turnèn Yollow. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Fall. Corn a-turnèn Yollow The windless copse ha’ sheädy boughs, Wi’ blackbirds’ evenèn whistles; The hills ha’ sheep upon their brows, The zummerleäze ha’ thistles: The meäds be gaÿ in grassy Maÿ, But, oh! vrom hill to hollow, Let me look down […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Beginning. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) The Beginning Some day I shall rise and leave my friends And seek you again through the world’s far ends, You whom I found so fair (Touch of your hands and smell of your hair!), My only god in the days that were. […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. The Veäiries. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. The Veäiries Eclogue Simon an’ Samel. SIMON. There’s what the vo’k do call a veäiry ring Out there, lo’k zee. Why, ’tis an oddish thing. SAMEL. Ah! zoo do seem. I wunder how do come! What […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Zummer Evenèn Dance. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Zummer Evenèn Dance Come out to the parrock, come out to the tree, The maïdens an’ chaps be a-waïtèn vor thee; There’s Jim wi’ his fiddle to plaÿ us some reels, Come out along wi’ us, an’ fling up thy heels. […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Readèn ov a Head-stwone. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Readèn ov a Head-stwone As I wer readèn ov a stwone In Grenley church-yard all alwone, A little maïd ran up, wi’ pride To zee me there, an’ push’d a-zide A bunch o’ bennets that did hide A verse her father, […]