English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Consecration. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Consecration The Twilight to my Star, Her hoary head A Hope receding far, To Life re-led. Apart and poor I lay; My fevered frame Slow withering away, When soft she came, From comfort, to my care; And Pity sweet Subdued […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Poe’s Purgatory. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Poe’s Purgatory All others rest; but I Dream-haunted lie— A distant roar, As of tumultuous waters, evermore About my brain. E’en Sleep, tho’ fain To soothe me, flies affrighted, and alone I bear the incumbent stone Of Death That stifles breath, […]
English Poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer. An ABC. Джеффри Чосер.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Джеффри Чосер) An ABC Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti. Almighty and al merciable queene, To whom that al this world fleeth for socour, To have relees of sinne, of sorwe, and teene, Glorious virgine, of alle floures flour, To thee I flee, confounded […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. The Vampire Moon. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) The Vampire Moon The vital vapors to absorb, The moon, with famished gaze, Suspends her lean, malignant orb Above a dying face. I watch her like a folded flower, As silently expand The pulses waving hour by hour And heavier the […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. A Blind Man’s Epitaph. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) A Blind Man’s Epitaph His eyes were dim; so here he lies, Whose death came after his dim-ise. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms A Duet Butterfly 899 To the […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To a Lady and Her Children. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To a Lady and Her Children O’erwhelming sorrow now demands my song: From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung. What flowing tears? What hearts with grief opprest? What sighs on sighs heave the fond parent’s breast? The brother weeps, the hapless sisters join Th’ increasing […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. A Hymn to the Evening. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) A Hymn to the Evening Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing, Exhales the incense of the blooming spring. Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes, And through […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep intent, And thought in living characters to paint, When first thy pencil did those beauties give, And breathing figures learnt from thee to live, How did those […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. From Lightning and Tempest. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) From Lightning and Tempest The spring-wind pass’d through the forest, and whispered low in the leaves, And the cedar toss’d her head, and the oak stood firm in his pride; The spring-wind pass’d through the town, through the housetops, casements, and eaves, […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Confiteor. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Confiteor The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing; The skies are clear, and the dawn is bright, Tho’ the bar of the bay is fleck’d with white, And the wind is fitfully wailing; Near the […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. No Name. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) No Name “A stone upon her heart and head, But no name written on that stone; Sweet neighbours whisper low instead, This sinner was a loving one.” — Mrs. Browning. ‘Tis a nameless stone that stands at your head — […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Sunlight on the Sea. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Sunlight on the Sea [The Philosophy of a Feast] Make merry, comrades, eat and drink (The sunlight flickers on the sea), The garlands gleam, the glasses clink, The grape juice mantles fair and free, The lamps are trimm’d, although the light […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Unshriven. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) Unshriven Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness’d in the hall. And he left his lady’s bower, and he sought the eastern tower, And he lifted cloak and weapon from the […]
English Poetry. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Ecclesiastes. Гилберт Кит Честертон.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон) Ecclesiastes There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray, Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth. There is one blasphemy: for death to pray, For God alone knoweth the praise of death. There is one creed: ’’neath no world-terror’s wing […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. On Imagination. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) On Imagination The various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! The wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is thine hand. From Helicon’s refulgent heights attend, Ye sacred choir, […]
English Poetry. Phillis Wheatley. To the University of Cambridge, in New-England. Филлис Уитли.
Phillis Wheatley (Филлис Уитли) To the University of Cambridge, in New-England WHILE an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses promise to assist my pen; ‘Twas not long since I left my native shore, The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, ’twas thy gracious hand […]
English Poetry. Charles Sackville. On King William’s Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination. Чарльз Сэквилл.
Charles Sackville (Чарльз Сэквилл) On King William’s Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey’d, Finding his royal enemy betray’d And in his chariot by vile hands opprest, With noble pity and just rage posses’t, Wept at the fall of so sublime […]
English Poetry. Charles Sackville. To Mr. Edward Howard on His New. Чарльз Сэквилл.
Charles Sackville (Чарльз Сэквилл) To Mr. Edward Howard on His New Utopia Thou damn’d antipodes to common sense! Thou foil to Flecknoe! Prithee tell from whence Does all this mighty stock of dullness spring, Which in such loads thou to the stage dost bring? Is’t all thy […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Itylus. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн. Итис
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Itylus Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow? What hast thou found in thine heart to sing? What […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. In Memory of Walter Savage Landor. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) In Memory of Walter Savage Landor Back to the flower-town, side by side, The bright months bring, New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, Freedom and spring. The sweet land laughs from sea to sea, Filled full of sun; All things come […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Cor Cordium. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Cor Cordium O heart of hearts, the chalice of love’s fire, Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom; O wonderful and perfect heart, for whom The lyrist liberty made life a lyre; O heavenly heart, at whose most dear […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Swimmer’s Dream. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) A Swimmer’s Dream NOVEMBER 4, 1889 Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love’s own self was the deep sea’s daughter, Fair and flawless from face to feet, […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Oblation. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) The Oblation Ask nothing more of me, sweet; All I can give you I give. Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet— Love that should help you to live, Song that should spur you to […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Nephelidia. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Nephelidia From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float, Are they looks […]
English Poetry. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. A Little Litany. Гилберт Кит Честертон.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон) A Little Litany When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low arch the land is bright) Peered through you, gate of heaven–and saw the earth. Or shutting out his […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. In the Bay. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) In the Bay I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery resonance and rest, Is as a port with clouds for harbour bar To fold the fleet in of […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Choriambics. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Choriambics Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was made lovely, we thought, with love? What sweet visions of sleep lured thee away, down from the light above? What strange faces of dreams, voices that called, hands that were raised […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. I Look in Her Face. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) * * * (Song: Minor) I look in her face and say, ‘Sing as you used to sing About Love’s blossoming;’ But she hints not Yea or Nay. ‘Sing, then, that Love’s a pain, If, Dear, you think it so, Whether […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Private Man on Public Men. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Private Man on Public Men When my contemporaries were driving Their coach through Life with strain and striving, And raking riches into heaps, And ably pleading in the Courts With smart rejoinders and retorts, Or where the Senate nightly keeps Its vigils, […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Penance. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Penance ‘Why do you sit, O pale thin man, At the end of the room By that harpsichord, built on the quaint old plan? – It is cold as a tomb, And there’s not a spark within the grate; And the jingling wires […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. By Henstridge Cross at the Year’s End. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) By Henstridge Cross at the Year’s End (From this centuries-old cross-road the highway leads east to London, north to Bristol and Bath, west to Exeter and the Land’s End, and south to the Channel coast.) Why go the east road […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Two-Years’ Idyll. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Two-Years’ Idyll Yes; such it was; Just those two seasons unsought, Sweeping like summertide wind on our ways; Moving, as straws, Hearts quick as ours in those days; Going like wind, too, and rated as nought Save as the prelude to plays […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. At the Royal Academy. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) At the Royal Academy These summer landscapes – clump, and copse, and croft – Woodland and meadowland – here hung aloft, Gay with limp grass and leafery new and soft, Seem caught from the immediate season’s yield I saw last noonday shining […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The Children and Sir Nameless. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Children and Sir Nameless Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared: ‘These wretched children romping in my park Trample the herbage till the soil is bared, And yap and yell from early morn till dark! Go keep them harnessed to their set routines: […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Growth in May. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Growth in May I enter a daisy-and-buttercup land, And thence thread a jungle of grass: Hurdles and stiles scarce visible stand Above the lush stems as I pass. Hedges peer over, and try to be seen, And seem to reveal a dim […]
English Poetry. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. A Christmas Carol. Гилберт Кит Честертон.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон) A Christmas Carol The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s breast His hair was like a star. (O stern and […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. She Did Not Turn. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) * * * She did not turn, But passed foot-faint with averted head In her gown of green, by the bobbing fern, Though I leaned over the gate that led From where we waited with table spread; But she did not turn: Why […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. On the Way. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) On the Way The trees fret fitfully and twist, Shutters rattle and carpets heave, Slime is the dust of yestereve, And in the streaming mist Fishes might seem to fin a passage if they list. But to his feet, Drawing nigh and […]
English Poetry. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn. Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло) King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn Witlaf, a king of the Saxons, Ere yet his last he breathed, To the merry monks of Croyland His drinking-horn bequeathed,– That, whenever they sat at their revels, And drank from the golden bowl, They might remember […]
English Poetry. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hermes Trismegistus. Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло) Hermes Trismegistus Still through Egypt’s desert places Flows the lordly Nile, From its banks the great stone faces Gaze with patient smile. Still the pyramids imperious Pierce the cloudless skies, And the Sphinx stares with mysterious, Solemn, stony eyes. But […]