English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dorcas Gustine. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dorcas Gustine I was not beloved of the villagers, But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed against me With plain remonstrance, hiding nor nurturing Nor secret griefs nor grudges. That act of the Spartan boy is […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rev. Lemuel Wiley. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rev. Lemuel Wiley I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter in the memory of the world, And none is treasured more by me: Look how I saved the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Henry Layton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Henry Layton Whoever thou art who passest by Know that my father was gentle, And my mother was violent, While I was born the whole of such hostile halves, Not intermixed and fused, But each distinct, feebly soldered together. Some of […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Oscar Hummel. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Oscar Hummel I staggered on through darkness, There was a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. It was nine o’clock, I was trying to get home. But somehow I was lost, Though really keeping the […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Adequacy. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) Adequacy NOW, by the verdure on thy thousand hills, Beloved England, doth the earth appear Quite good enough for men to overbear The will of God in, with rebellious wills ! We cannot say the morning-sun fulfils Ingloriously its course, nor that the clear […]
English Poetry. William Blake. To Autumn. Уильям Блейк. К Осени
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) To Autumn О Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Robert Southey Burke. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Robert Southey Burke I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor A. D. Blood. I lavished my admiration upon you, You were to my mind the almost perfect man. You devoured my personality, And the idealism of my youth, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dow Kritt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dow Kritt Samuel is forever talking of his elm – But I did not need to die to learn about roots: I, who dug all the ditches about Spoon River. Look at my elm! Sprung from as good a seed as […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hortense Robbins. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hortense Robbins My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. On a Bust. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) On a Bust A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe’s wharf’, Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Judge Somers. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Judge Somers How does it happen, tell me, That I who was the most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech The court-house ever heard, and wrote A brief that won the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Widow McFarlane. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Widow McFarlane I was the Widow McFarlane, Weaver of carpets for all the village. And I pity you still at the loom of life, You who are singing to the shuttle And lovingly watching the work of your hands, If you […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Lucius Atherton. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Lucius Atherton When my moustache curled, And my hair was black, And I wore tight trousers And a diamond stud, I was an excellent knave of hearts and took many a trick. But when the gray hairs began to appear– Lo! […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jonas Keene. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jonas Keene Why did Albert Schirding kill himself Trying to be County Superintendent of Schools, Blest as he was with the means of life And wonderful children, bringing him honor Ere he was sixty? If even one of my boys could […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. John Cabanis. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) John Cabanis Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy’s rule in Spoon River Made me desert the party of law and order And lead the liberal party. Fellow citizens! I saw as […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Daniel M’Cumber. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Daniel M’Cumber When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my landlady’s daughter, Stole into my life somehow, and won me away. Then after some years whom should I meet […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 2. But only three in all God’s universe. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) Sonnets from the Portuguese. 2. But only three in all God’s universe But only three in all God’s universe Have heard this word thou hast said,—Himself, beside Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied One of us… that was God,… and laid the curse […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Felix Schmidt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Felix Schmidt It was only a little house of two rooms – Almost like a child’s play-house – With scarce five acres of ground around it; And I had so many children to feed And school and clothe, and a wife […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Dillard Sissman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Dillard Sissman The buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie Beating the grass into long waves. My kite is above the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Schroeder the Fisherman. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Schroeder the Fisherman I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each other, Until the strongest got the prize. Or I went to my little pasture, Where the peaceful swine […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Webster Ford. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Webster Ford Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M’Grew Cried, ”There’s a ghost,” and I, ”It’s Delphic Apollo”; And the son of the banker derided us, saying, ”It’s light By the flags at […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Oaks Tutt. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Oaks Tutt My mother was for woman’s rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to right them. When my father died, I set out to see peoples […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Calvin Campbell. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Calvin Campbell Ye who are kicking against Fate, Tell me how it is that on this hill-side, Running down to the river, Which fronts the sun and the south-wind, This plant draws from the air and soil Poison and becomes poison […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Aner Clute. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Aner Clute Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later in Chicago, Denver, Frisco, New York, wherever I lived, How I happened to lead the life, And what was […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Enoch Dunlap. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Enoch Dunlap How many times, during the twenty years I was your leader, friends of Spoon River, Did you neglect the convention and caucus, And leave the burden on my hands Of guarding and saving the people’s cause? – Sometimes because […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Peleg Poague. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Peleg Poague Horses and men are just alike. There was my stallion, Billy Lee, Black as a cat and trim as a deer, With an eye of fire, keen to start, And he could hit the fastest speed Of any racer […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Mrs. Benjamin Painter. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Mrs. Benjamin Painter I know that he told how I snared his soul With a snare which bled him to death. And all the men loved him, And most of the women pitied him. But suppose you are really a lady, […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. A Curse for a Nation. Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) A Curse for a Nation I heard an angel speak last night, And he said ‘Write! Write a Nation’s curse for me, And send it over the Western Sea.’ I faltered, taking up the word: ‘Not so, my lord! If curses must be, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Hare Drummer. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Hare Drummer Do the boys and girls still go to Siever’s For cider, after school, in late September? Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets On Aaron Hatfield’s farm when the frosts begin? For many times with the laughing girls and […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Elmer Karr. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Elmer Karr What but the love of God could have softened And made forgiving the people of Spoon River Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt And murdered him beside? Oh, loving hearts that took me in again When […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Zilpha Marsh. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Zilpha Marsh At four o’clock in late October I sat alone in the country school-house Back from the road ’mid stricken fields, And an eddy of wind blew leaves on the pane, And crooned in the flue of the cannon-stove, With […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Jefferson Howard. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Jefferson Howard My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. The Circuit Judge. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) The Circuit Judge Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain – Almost as if an intangible Nemesis or hatred Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve, my memory. […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Rebecca Wasson. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Rebecca Wasson Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring, After each other drifting, past my window drifting! And I lay so many years watching them drift and counting The years till a terror came in my heart at times, With […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Knowlt Hoheimer. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Knowlt Hoheimer I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet enter my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Eugenia Todd. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Eugenia Todd Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? Or a pain in the side that never quite left you? Or a malignant growth that grew with time? So that even in profoundest slumber […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Judge Selah Lively. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Judge Selah Lively Suppose you stood just five feet two, And had worked your way as a grocery clerk, Studying law by candle light Until you became an attorney at law? And then suppose through your diligence, And regular church attendance, […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Anthony Findlay. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Anthony Findlay Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, ’Tis better to be feared than loved. And if this country would rather part With the friendship of every nation Than surrender […]
English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. A Letter to a Live Poet. Руперт Брук.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (Руперт Брук) A Letter to a Live Poet Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light more glorious Or deeper blindness, no man’s hand, as thine, Has, on the world’s most noblest chord […]
English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Pauline Barrett. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.
Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс) Pauline Barrett Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon’s knife! And almost a year to creep back into strength, Till the dawn of our wedding decennial Found me my seeming self again. We walked the forest together, By a […]