English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Futurity. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) Futurity AND, O beloved voices, upon which Ours passionately call because erelong Ye brake off in the middle of that song We sang together softly, to enrich The poor world with the sense of love, and witch, The heart out of things evil,–I am […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. Borderland. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) Borderland Am I waking, am I sleeping? As the first faint dawn comes creeping Thro’ the pane, I am aware Of an unseen presence hovering, Round, above, in the dusky air: A downy bird, with an odorous wing, That fans my forehead, and […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. Between the Showers. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) Between the Showers Between the showers I went my way, The glistening street was bright with flowers; It seemed that March had turned to May Between the showers. Above the shining roofs and towers The blue broke forth athwart the grey; Birds […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. Ballade of an Omnibus. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) Ballade of an Omnibus ”To see my love suffices me.” –Ballades in Blue China. Some men to carriages aspire; On some the costly hansoms wait; Some seek a fly, on job or hire; Some mount the trotting steed, elate. I […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. Ballade of a Special Edition. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) Ballade of a Special Edition He comes; I hear him up the street– Bird of ill omen, flapping wide The pinion of a printed sheet, His hoarse note scares the eventide. Of slaughter, theft, and suicide He is the herald and the friend; […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. At a Dinner Party. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) At a Dinner Party With fruit and flowers the board is deckt, The wine and laughter flow; I’ll not complain–could one expect So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers, My glance your glances find.– It is […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. A Wall Flower. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) A Wall Flower I lounge in the doorway and languish in vain While Tom, Dick and Harry are dancing with Jane My spirit rises to the music’s beat; There is a leaden fiend lurks in my feet! To move unto your […]
English Poetry. Amy Levy. A Minor Poet. Эми Леви.
Amy Levy (Эми Леви) A Minor Poet ”What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?” Here is the phial; here I turn the key Sharp in the lock. Click!–there’s no doubt it turned. This is the third time; there is luck in […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Inscribed on a Tavern Window. Роберт Бернс. Стихи, начертанные на оконном стекле таверны (”Пир Мудрости хорош для домоседа…”)
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Inscribed on a Tavern Window Thou Greybeard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures; Give me with young Folly to live: I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures; But Folly has raptures to give. 1796 Перевод на русский язык Стихи, начертанные на оконном стекле […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh. Роберт Бернс. Эпитафия мистеру У. Крукшанку, учителю средней школы из Эдинбурга
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Honest Will to heaven is gane, And mony shall lament him; His faults they a’ in Latin lay, In English nane e’er kent them. 1787 Перевод на русский язык Эпитафия мистеру У. Крукшанку, учителю средней […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Chase Henry. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Chase Henry In my life I was the town drunkard; When I died the priest denied me burial In holy ground. The which rebounded to my good fortune. For the Protestants bought this lot, And buried my body here, Close to the […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. To Flush, My Dog. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) To Flush, My Dog Loving friend, the gift of one Who her own true faith has run Through thy lower nature, Be my benediction said With my hand upon thy head, Gentle fellow-creature! Like a lady’s ringlets brown, Flow thy silken ears adown […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Harlan Sewall. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Harlan Sewall You never understood, O unknown one, Why it was I repaid Your devoted friendship and delicate ministrations First with diminished thanks, Afterward by gradually withdrawing my presence from you, So that I might not be compelled to thank you, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Magrady Graham. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Magrady Graham Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor? For when the returns began to come in And Cleveland was sweeping the East, It was too much for you, poor old heart, Who had striven for democracy In the long, long years […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rutherford McDowell. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rutherford McDowell They brought me ambrotypes Of the old pioneers to enlarge. And sometimes one sat for me— Some one who was in being When giant hands from the womb of the world Tore the republic. What was it in their […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Perry Zoll. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Perry Zoll My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association, For this modest boulder, And its little tablet of bronze. Twice I tried to join your honored body, And was rejected, And when my little brochure On the intelligence of plants […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. State’s Attorney Fallas. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) State’s Attorney Fallas I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable and bitter, Driving the jury to hang the madman, Barry Holden, Was made as one dead by light […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. James Garber. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) James Garber Do you remember, passer-by, the path I wore across the lot where now stands the opera house, Hasting with swift feet to work through many years? Take its meaning to heart: You too may walk, after the hills at […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Silas Dement. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Silas Dement It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled With new-fallen frost. It was midnight and not a soul abroad. Out of the chimney of the court-house A gray-hound of smoke leapt and chased The northwest wind. I carried a ladder […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rev. Abner Peet. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rev. Abner Peet I had no objection at all To selling my household effects at auction On the village square. It gave my beloved flock the chance To get something which had belonged to me For a memorial. But that trunk […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Ida Frickey. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Ida Frickey Nothing in life is alien to you: I was a penniless girl from Summum Who stepped from the morning train in Spoon River. All the houses stood before me with closed doors And drawn shades — I was barred […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Tennessee Claflin Shope. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Tennessee Claflin Shope I was the laughing-stock of the village, Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves – Also of the learned, like Rev. Peet, who read Greek The same as English. For instead of talking free […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Mother and Poet. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) Mother and Poet I. Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the west by the sea. Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast And are wanting a great song for […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Penniwit, the Artist. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Penniwit, the Artist I lost my patronage in Spoon River From trying to put my mind in the camera To catch the soul of the person. The very best picture I ever took Was of Judge Somers, attorney at law. He […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Samuel Gardner. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Samuel Gardner I who kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers, Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm, Measuring its generous branches with my eye, And listened to its rejoicing leaves Lovingly patting each other With sweet aeolian whispers. And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Theodore the Poet. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Theodore the Poet As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours On the shore of the turbid Spoon With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish’s burrow, Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead, First his waving antennae, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Johnnie Sayre. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Johnnie Sayre Father, thou canst never know The anguish that smote my heart For my disobedience, the moment I felt The remorseless wheel of the engine Sink into the crying flesh of my leg. As they carried me to the home […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Isa Nutter. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Isa Nutter Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, And Doc Hill called it leucaemia – But I know what brought me here: I was sixty-four but strong as a man Of thirty-five or forty. And it wasn’t writing a letter a […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. William Jones. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) William Jones Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me, Needing a name from my books; Once in a while a letter from Yeomans. Out of the mussel-shells gathered along the shore Sometimes a pearl with a glint like […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jeduthan Hawley. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jeduthan Hawley There would be a knock at the door And I would arise at midnight and go to the shop, Where belated travelers would hear me hammering Sepulchral boards and tacking satin. And often I wondered who would go with […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mickey M’Grew. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mickey M’Grew It was just like everything else in life: Something outside myself drew me down, My own strength never failed me. Why, there was the time I earned the money With which to go away to school, And my father […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Henry Tripp. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Henry Tripp The bank broke and I lost my savings. I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River And I made up my mind to run away And leave my place in life and my family; But just as […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Conrad Siever. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Conrad Siever Not in that wasted garden Where bodies are drawn into grass That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens That bear no fruit – There where along the shaded walks Vain sighs are heard, And vainer dreams are dreamed Of […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. A Thought for a Lonely Death-Bed. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) A Thought for a Lonely Death-Bed IF God compel thee to this destiny, To die alone, with none beside thy bed To ruffle round with sobs thy last word said And mark with tears the pulses ebb from thee,– Pray then alone, ‘O Christ, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Eugene Carman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Eugene Carman Rhodes’ slave! Selling shoes and gingham, Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long For fourteen hours a day for three hundred and thirteen days For more than twenty years. Saying ”Yes’m” and ”Yes, sir”, and ”Thank you” A […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Lambert Hutchins. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Lambert Hutchins I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk: One, the house I built on the hill, With its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate; The other, the lake-front in Chicago, Where the railroad keeps a switching yard, With […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Harold Arnett. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Harold Arnett I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm, Weak from the noon-day heat. A church bell sounded mournfully far away, I heard the cry of a baby, And the coughing of John […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Willie Metcalf. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Willie Metcalf I was Willie Metcalf. They used to call me ”Doctor Meyers” Because, they said, I looked like him. And he was my father, according to Jack McGuire. I lived in the livery stable, Sleeping on the floor Side by […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Searcy Foote. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Searcy Foote I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn’t help me. So I made gardens and raked the lawns And bought John Alden’s books with my earnings And toiled for the very means of life. I […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Henry Phipps. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Henry Phipps I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the banking clique; My son the cashier of the bank, Wedded to Rhodes’ daughter, My week day […]