English Poetry. Robert Browning. Bishop Blougram’s Apology. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Bishop Blougram’s Apology NO more wine? then we’ll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i’ faith! We ought to have our Abbey back, you see. It’s different, preaching in basilicas, And doing duty in some masterpiece Like this […]
English Poetry. William Blake. To Summer. Уильям Блейк. К Лету
William Blake (Уильям Блейк) To Summer О thou who passest thro’ our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou, О Summer, Oft pitched’st here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Alone. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Alone The noon’s greygolden meshes make All night a veil, The shorelamps in the sleeping lake Laburnum tendrils trail. The sly reeds whisper to the night A name– her name- And all my soul is a delight, A swoon of shame. […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight They mouth love’s language. Gnash The thirteen teeth Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh. Love’s breath in you is stale, worded or sung, As sour […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Jeäne’s Weddèn Day in Mornèn. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Jeäne’s Weddèn Day in Mornèn At last Jeäne come down stairs, a-drest Wi’ weddèn knots upon her breast, A-blushèn, while a tear did lie Upon her burnèn cheäk half dry; An’ then her Robert, drawèn nigh Wi’ tothers, took her han’ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Havèn Woones Fortune a-twold. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Havèn Woones Fortune a-twold In leäne the gipsies, as we went A-milkèn, had a-pitch’d their tent, Between the gravel-pit an’ clump O’ trees, upon the little hump: An’ while upon the grassy groun’ Their smokèn vire did crack an’ bleäze, Their […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Uncle an’ Aunt. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Uncle an’ Aunt How happy uncle us’d to be O’ zummer time, when aunt an’ he O’ Zunday evenèns, eärm in eärm, Did walk about their tiny farm, While birds did zing an’ gnats did zwarm, Drough grass a’most above their […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Sweet Music in the Wind. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Sweet Music in the Wind When evenèn is a-drawèn in, I’ll steal vrom others’ naïsy din; An’ where the whirlèn brook do roll Below the walnut-tree, I’ll stroll An’ think o’ thee wi’ all my soul, Dear Jenny; while the sound […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Simples. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Simples Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild The moon a web of silence weaves In the still garden where a child Gathers the simple salad leaves. A moondew stars her hanging hair And moonlight kisses her young brow And, gathering, she sings […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. A Prayer. Джеймс Джойс. Мольба
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) A Prayer Again! Come, give, yield all your strength to me! From far a low word breathes on the breaking brain Its cruel calm, submission’s misery, Gentling her awe as to a soul predestined. Cease, silent love! My doom! Blind me with your […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 4. When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 4. When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven When the shy star goes forth in heaven All maidenly, disconsolate, Hear you amid the drowsy even One who is singing by your gate. His song is softer than the dew And he […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Tutto . Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Tutto A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star Piercing the west, As thou, fond heart, love’s time, so faint, so far, Rememberest. The clear young eyes’ soft look, the candid brow, The fragrant hair, Falling as through the silence falleth now […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. Роберт Браунинг. В Англии весной
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 27. Though I Thy Mithridates Were. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 27. Though I Thy Mithridates Were Though I thy Mithridates were, Framed to defy the poison-dart, Yet must thou fold me unaware To know the rapture of thy heart, And I but render and confess The malice of thy tenderness. For […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 26. Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 26. Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night Thou leanest to the shell of night, Dear lady, a divining ear. In that soft choiring of delight What sound hath made thy heart to fear? Seemed it of rivers rushing forth From the […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 23. This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 23. This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart This heart that flutters near my heart My hope and all my riches is, Unhappy when we draw apart And happy between kiss and kiss; My hope and all my riches—yes!— And all my […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 2. The Twilight Turns from Amethyst. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 2. The Twilight Turns from Amethyst The twilight turns from amethyst To deep and deeper blue, The lamp fills with a pale green glow The trees of the avenue. The old piano plays an air, Sedate and slow and gay; She […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. She Weeps over Rahoon. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) She Weeps over Rahoon Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling, Where my dark lover lies. Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling, At grey moonrise. Love, hear thou How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling, Ever unanswered, […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 32. Rain Has Fallen All the Day. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 32. Rain Has Fallen All the Day Rain has fallen all the day. O come among the laden trees: The leaves lie thick upon the way Of memories. Staying a little by the way Of memories shall we depart. Come, my […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 22. Of That So Sweet Imprisonment. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 22. Of That So Sweet Imprisonment Of that so sweet imprisonment My soul, dearest, is fain— Soft arms that woo me to relent And woo me to detain. Ah, could they ever hold me there Gladly were I a prisoner! Dearest, […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 31. O, It Was Out by Donnycarney. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 31. O, It Was Out by Donnycarney O, it was out by Donnycarney When the bat flew from tree to tree My love and I did walk together; And sweet were the words she said to me. Along with us the […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 16. O Cool Is the Valley Now. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 16. O Cool Is the Valley Now O cool is the valley now And there, love, will we go For many a choir is singing now Where Love did sometime go. And hear you not the thrushes calling, […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 33. Now, O Now, in This Brown Land. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 33. Now, O Now, in This Brown Land Now, O now, in this brown land Where Love did so sweet music make We two shall wander, hand in hand, Forbearing for old friendship’ sake, Nor grieve because our love was gay Which […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister I. Gr-r-r—there go, my heart’s abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God’s blood, would not mine kill you! What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming? Oh, that rose has prior claims— Needs its leaden […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Nightpiece. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Nightpiece Gaunt in gloom, The pale stars their torches, Enshrouded, wave. Ghostfires from heaven’s far verges faint illume, Arches on soaring arches, Night’s sindark nave. Seraphim, The lost hosts awaken To service till In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim, Raised when […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 14. My Dove, My Beautiful One. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 14. My Dove, My Beautiful One My dove, my beautiful one, Arise, arise! The night-dew lies Upon my lips and eyes. The odorous winds are weaving A music of sighs: Arise, arise, My dove, my beautiful one! I wait by […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 30. Love Came to Us in Time Gone by. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 30. Love Came to Us in Time Gone by Love came to us in time gone by When one at twilight shyly played And one in fear was standing nigh— For Love at first is all afraid. We were grave lovers. […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 20. In the Dark Pine-Wood. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 20. In the Dark Pine-Wood In the dark pine-wood I would we lay, In deep cool shadow At noon of day. How sweet to lie there, Sweet to kiss, Where the great pine-forest Enaisled is! Thy kiss descending Sweeter were […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Flood. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Flood Goldbrown upon the sated flood The rockvine clusters lift and sway; Vast wings above the lambent waters brood Of sullen day. A waste of waters ruthlessly Sways and uplifts its weedy mane Where brooding day stares down upon the sea In […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Ecce Puer. Джеймс Джойс. Ecce Puer
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Ecce Puer Of the dark past A child is born; With joy and grief My heart is torn. Calm in his cradle The living lies. May love and mercy Unclose his eyes! Young life is breathed On the glass; The world that […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 29. Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 29. Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So? Dear heart, why will you use me so? Dear eyes that gently me upbraid, Still are you beautiful—but O, How is your beauty raimented! Through the clear mirror of your eyes, Through […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 11. Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 11. Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, Bid adieu to girlish days, Happy Love is come to woo Thee and woo thy girlish ways— The zone that doth become thee fair, The snood upon thy yellow hair, When thou […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 3. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 3. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose At that hour when all things have repose, O lonely watcher of the skies, Do you hear the night wind and the sighs Of harps playing unto Love to unclose The pale gates […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. Chamber Music. 35. All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) Chamber Music. 35. All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan, Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the winds cry to the water’s Monotone. The grey winds, the […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. Porphyria’s Lover. Роберт Браунинг. Возлюбленный Порфирии
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Porphyria’s Lover The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the […]
English Poetry. James Joyce. A Flower Given to My Daughter. Джеймс Джойс.
James Joyce (Джеймс Джойс) A Flower Given to My Daughter Frail the white rose and frail are Her hands that gave Whose soul is sere and paler Than time’s wan wave. Rosefrail and fair — yet frailest A wonder wild In gentle eyes thou veilest, My blueveined […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Sleep did come wi’ the Dew. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Sleep did come wi’ the Dew O when our zun’s a-zinkèn low, How soft’s the light his feäce do drow Upon the backward road our mind Do turn an’ zee a-left behind; When we, in childhood’s days did vind Our jaÿ […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. The Brook that Ran by Gramfer’s. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. The Brook that Ran by Gramfer’s When snow-white clouds wer thin an’ vew Avore the zummer sky o’ blue, An’ I’d noo ho but how to vind Zome plaÿ to entertaïn my mind; Along the water, as did wind Wi’ zedgy […]
English Poetry. William Barnes. First Collection. Summer. Woodley. Уильям Барнс.
William Barnes (Уильям Барнс) First Collection. Summer. Woodley Sweet Woodley! oh! how fresh an’ gaÿ Thy leänes an’ vields be now in Maÿ, The while the broad-leav’d clotes do zwim In brooks wi’ gil’cups at the brim; An’ yollow cowslip-beds do grow By thorns in blooth so white […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. To a Youthful Friend. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) To a Youthful Friend 1. Few years have pass’d since thou and I Were firmest friends, at least in name, And Childhood’s gay sincerity Preserved our feelings long the same. 2. But now, like me, too well thou know’st […]