English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. To Harriet. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) To Harriet 1. Harriet! to see such Circumspection, In Ladies I have no objection Concerning what they read; An ancient Maid’s a sage adviser, Like her you will be much the wiser, In word, as well as Deed. […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Song (Breeze of the night in gentler sighs). Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Song (Breeze of the night in gentler sighs) 1. Breeze of the night in gentler sighs More softly murmur o’er the billow; For Slumber seals my Fanny’s eyes, And Peace must never shun her pillow. 2. Or […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Queries to Casuists. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Queries to Casuists The Moralists tell us that Loving is Sinning, And always are prating about and about it, But as Love of Existence itself’s the beginning, Say, what would Existence itself be without it? They argue the point […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. To an Oak at Newstead. Джордж Гордон Байрон.
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) To an Oak at Newstead 1. Young Oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground, I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine; That thy dark-waving branches would flourish around, And ivy thy trunk with its mantle […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Ballad of a Bachelor. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Ballad of a Bachelor Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three or four. Two maids for his affection vied, And each desired to be his bride, […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. Life in a Love. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) Life in a Love Escape me? Never— Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth While the one eludes, must the other pursue. My life is a fault […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Jabed Meeker, Humorist. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Jabed Meeker, Humorist Twain? Oh, yes, I’ve heard Mark Twain Heard him down to Pleasant Plain; Funny? Yes, I guess so. Folks Seemed to laugh loud at his jokes— Laughed to beat the band; but I Couldn’t rightly make out why. […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Djolan. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Djolan Soft was the night, the eve how airy, When through the big, fat dictionary I wandered on in careless ease, And read the a’s, b’s, c’s and d’s! But stop! What is this form I see, Beginning with a […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. An Old-Fashioned Garden. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) An Old-Fashioned Garden Strange, is it not? She was making her garden, Planting the old-fashioned flowers that day— Bleeding-hearts tender and bachelors-buttons— Spreading the seeds in the old-fashioned way. Just in the old fashioned way, too, our quarrel Grew until, […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere, To think that one I held so dear Should use a base deceiver’s art To trifle with my loving heart. A brand new ten-cent valentine With lace and hearts and […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. A Question. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) A Question Whene’er I feed the barnyard folk My gentle soul is vexed; My sensibilities are torn And I am sore perplexed. The rooster so politely stands While waiting for his food, But when I feed him, what a change! […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Would You Believe It?. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Would You Believe It? One year ago I wished that I A banker great might be With a hundred million dollars And financial majesty; A mighty Wall Street banker With a whopping lot of power And an income of somewhere […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Why I Went to the Foot. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Why I Went to the Foot Was ever a maiden so worried? I’ll admit I am partial to Jim, For Jimmie has promised to wed me When I’m old enough to wed him. But then I love teacher, too, dearly, She’s […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Trespassers. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Trespassers When Love and I drew softly nigh And gazed in modest Chloe’s eye We saw reflected there in part The lovely mansion of her heart, A sight so fair that, quite bereft Of sense and shame, we had but left […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. To Phyllis and May. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) To Phyllis and May O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May, Which of you carried my heart away? Who has my heart? I would like to know Which was the guilty one of the two, But I only know it was […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. To Kate (In Lieu of a Valentine). Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) To Kate (In Lieu of a Valentine) Sweet Love and I had oft communed; We were, indeed, great friends, And oft I sought his office, near Where Courtship Alley ends. I used to sit with him, and smoke, And talk of […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. A Wall. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) A Wall O the old wall here! How I could pass Life in a long midsummer day, My feet confined to a plot of grass, My eyes from a wall not once away! And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe Yon wall […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Water Nymphs. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Water Nymphs They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer, Laughing amain when I feign to depart; Often I hear them, now faint and now clearer— Innocent bold or so sweetly discreet. Are they Nymphs of the […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day. And then, of a sudden, it up and bust, And all that was […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Tearful Tale of Captain Dan. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Tearful Tale of Captain Dan A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And one to Skiddaw West. Now Ann Eliza was the name Of her at East Skiddaw; […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Romance of Patrolman Casey. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Romance of Patrolman Casey There was a young patrolman who Had large but tender feet; They always hurt him badly when He walked upon his beat. (He always took them with him when He walked upon his beat.) His name […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Rich Boy’s Christmas. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Rich Boy’s Christmas And now behold this sulking boy, His costly presents bring no joy; Harsh tears of anger fill his eye Tho’ he has all that wealth can buy. What profits it that he employs His many gifts to […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Poor Boy’s Christmas. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Poor Boy’s Christmas Observe, my child, this pretty scene, And note the air of pleasure keen With which the widow’s orphan boy Toots his tin horn, his only toy. What need of costly gifts has he? The widow has nowhere […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Daughter of the Year. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Daughter of the Year Nature, when she made thee, dear, Begged the treasures of the year. For thy cheeks, all pink and white, Spring gave apple blossoms light; Summer, for thy matchless eyes, Gave the azure of her skies; Autumn spun […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at Farmington. But until our days on earth are done Our blood will burn and […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Ballade of the Mistletoe Bough. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Ballade of the Mistletoe Bough I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me plainly know That not for me is the thing I prize; Instead, from her coldly scornful […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. The Ballade of the Automobile. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) The Ballade of the Automobile When our yacht sails seaward on steady keel And the wind is moist with breath of brine And our laughter tells of our perfect weal, We may carol the praises of ruby wine; But if, automobiling, my […]
English Poetry. Robert Browning. A Light Woman. Роберт Браунинг.
Robert Browning (Роберт Браунинг) A Light Woman I. So far as our story approaches the end, Which do you pity the most of us three?— My friend, or the mistress of my friend With her wanton eyes, or me? II. My friend was already too […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Outbid. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Outbid When Cupid held an auction sale, I hastened to his mart, For I had heard that he would sell The blue-eyed Dora’s heart. I brought a wealth of truest love, The most that I could proffer, Because, forsooth, of […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. October. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) October The forest holds high carnival to-day, And every hill-side glows with gold and fire; Ivy and sumac dress in colors gay, And oak and maple mask in bright attire. The hoarded wealth of sober autumn days In lavish mood […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. No Beer, No Work. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) No Beer, No Work The shades of night was fallin’ slow As through New York a guy did go And nail on ev’ry barroom door A card that this here motter bore: “No beer, no work.” His brow was sad, […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Mouths of Hippopotami and Some Recent Novels. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Mouths of Hippopotami and Some Recent Novels (with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended jaws For fear and terror were good cause. That month, that vasty carmine […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Millennium. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Millennium The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev’ry band. Brandy no longer taints our tea. Dimples smile in the red-rouged knee. The dowagers are no longer fat. Radio now makes safe […]
English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!. Эллис Паркер Батлер.
Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin’ down de street, A-smilin’ and a-grinnin’ at every one he meet; My, oh! He was happy! Boy, but was he gay! Wishin’ “Merry Chris’mus” an’ “Happy New-Year’s Day”! Wishin’ that his […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb. Роберт Бернс. Эпиграмма на известного хлыща
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Light lay the earth on Billy’s breast, His chicken heart so tender; But build a castle on his head, His skull will prop it under. 1794 Перевод на русский язык Эпиграмма на известного хлыща Он был трусливее цыплёнка, […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. To John Taylor. Роберт Бернс. Джону Тейлору («Когда наскучил небосклон…»)
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) To John Taylor With Pegasus upon a day, Apollo, weary flying, – Through frosty hills the journey lay, – On foot the way was plying. Poor slip-shod giddy Pegasus Was but a sorry walker; To Vulcan then Apollo goes To get a frosty […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. The Selkirk Grace. Роберт Бернс. Благодарственная молитва в доме графа Селькирка
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) The Selkirk Grace Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. Перевод на русский язык Благодарственная молитва в доме графа Селькирка У кого-то есть еда, […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. The White Peacock. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) The White Peacock (France — Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like a hangman’s cap; under his twitching fingers the beads shiver and click, As he mumbles in […]
English Poetry. Robert Burns. «It was a’ for Our Rightfu’ King…». Роберт Бернс. «Законный король нас призвал: “Помогите!..”»
Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) «It was a’ for Our Rightfu’ King…» It was a’ for our rightfu’ King, We left fair Scotland’s strand; It was a’ for our rightfu’ King, We e’er saw Irish land, My dear, We e’er saw Irish land. Now a’ is done that […]
English Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet. Winged Man. Стивен Винсент Бене.
Stephen Vincent Benet (Стивен Винсент Бене) Winged Man The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar, Where first two men spread wings […]