English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. The Fable of Midas. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) The Fable of Midas Midas, we are in story told, Turn’d every thing he touch’d to gold: He chipp’d his bread; the pieces round Glitter’d like spangles on the ground: A codling, ere it went his lip in, Would straight become a golden pippin. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Spats. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Spats When young I was a Socialist Despite my tender years; No blessed chance I ever missed To slam the profiteers. Yet though a fanatic I was, And cursed aristocrats, The Party chucked me out because I sported Spats. Aye, though […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Surtax. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Surtax We pitied him because He lived alone; His tiny cottage was His only own. His little garden had A wall around; Yet never was so glad A bit of ground. It seemed to fair rejoice With flowers and fruit; With […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Locket. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Locket From out her shabby rain-coat pocket The little Jew girl in the train Produced a dinted silver locket With pasted in it portraits twain. “These are my parents, sir” she said; “Or were, for now I fear they’re dead. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Hand. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Hand Throughout my life I see A guiding hand; The pitfalls set for me Were grimly planned. But always when and where They opened wide, Someone who seemed to care Stood by my side. When up the pathway dark I […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Hymn of the Triumphant Airman. Редьярд Киплинг. Гимн торжествующего лётчика. 1929. Перелёт с Востока на Запад со скоростью 1.000 миль в час
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Hymn of the Triumphant Airman 1929 FLYING EAST TO WEST AT 1000 M.P.H. OH, LONG had we paltered With bridle and girth Ere those horses were haltered That gave us the Earth- Ere the Flame and the Fountain, The […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Greek National Anthem. Редьярд Киплинг. Греческий национальный гимн. 1918
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Greek National Anthem 1918 We knew thee of old, Oh divinely restored, By the light of thine eyes And the light of thy Sword. From the graves of our slain Shall thy valour prevail As we greet thee again – Hail, […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. L’Envoi (We talked of yesteryears). Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) L’Envoi (We talked of yesteryears) We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad stampedes, of toil beyond all measure, Of camp-fire comfort when the day was done. We talked of […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Intolerance. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Intolerance I have no brief for gambling, nay The notion I express That money earned ‘s the only way To pay for happiness. With cards and dice I do not hold; By betting I’ve been bit: Conclusion: to get honest gold You’ve […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Flies. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Flies I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily life; we owe to flies. Apropos, I’ll tell you of Choo, the spouse Of the head of the hunters, Wung; […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Cheer. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Cheer It’s a mighty good world, so it is, dear lass, When even the worst is said. There’s a smile and a tear, a sigh and a cheer, But better be living than dead; A joy and a pain, a loss and […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. Phillis, or, The Progress of Love. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) Phillis, or, The Progress of Love Desponding Phillis was endu’d With ev’ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn’d her Ear: If o’er against her you were plac’t She durst not look above your Wa[i]st; […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Brave Coward. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Brave Coward Elisabeth imagines I’ve A yellow streak She deems I have no dash and drive, Jest dogoned weak. ‘A man should be a man,’ says Liz ‘Trade blow for blow.’ Poor kid! What my position is She jest don’t know. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Barcelona. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Barcelona The night before I left Milan A mob jammed the Cathedral Square, And high the tide of passion ran As politics befouled the air. A seething hell of human strife, I shrank back from its evil core, Seeing in this convulsive […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Apollo Belvedere. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Apollo Belvedere A-sitttin’ on a cracker box an’ spittin’ in the stove, I took a sudden notion that I’d kindo’ like to rove; An’ so I bought a ticket, jest as easy as could be, From Pumpkinville in Idaho to Rome in […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. A Busy Man. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) A Busy Man This crowded life of God’s good giving No man has relished more than I; I’ve been so goldarned busy living I’ve never had the time to die. So busy fishing, hunting, roving, Up on my toes and fighting fit; […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Our Lady of the Snows. Редьярд Киплинг. Владычица Снежного Края. 1897. Канадский закон о тарифных преференциях, принятый в 1897 году
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Our Lady of the Snows 1897 (Canadian Preferential Tariff, 1897) A NATION spoke to a Nation, A Queen sent word to a Throne: “Daughter am I in my mother’s house, But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open, As […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. Ode to Night Yalden’s Ode. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) Ode to Night Yalden’s Ode Hail Reverend Monarch! Hoary Night! Extend thy ever Blissful reign, Bid jarring passions cease with Light, And Peace Lead forth thy jocund Train- Thy Loyal Subjects here we sit Beneath they ever Blest domain In Amity and Friendship met […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. A Love Song. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) A Love Song By the fierce flames of Love I’m in a sad taking, I’m singed like a pig that is hung up for bacon, My stomach is scorched like an over-done mutton-chop, That for want of gravy wont afford a single drop. Love, […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Female of the Species. Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о женском первоначале. 1911
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Female of the Species 1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Benefactors. Редьярд Киплинг. Благодетели
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Benefactors Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme– When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time? […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Old Issue. Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о старом Короле. 9 октября 1899 г. Начало англо-бурской войны
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Old Issue October 9, 1899 (Outbreak of Boer War) “Here is nothing new nor aught unproven,” say the Trumpets, “Many feet have worn it and the road is old indeed. “It is the King–the King we schooled aforetime! “ (Trumpets in […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. On Gold. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) On Gold All-ruling tyrant of the earth, To vilest slaves I owe my birth, How is the greatest monarch blest, When in my gaudy livery drest! No haughty nymph has power to run From me; or my embraces shun. Stabb’d to the heart, condemn’d […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Ballad of Boh Da Thone. Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о Боу Да Тоне
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Ballad of Boh Da Thone This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone, Erst a Pretender to Theebaw’s throne, Who harried the district of Alalone: How he met with his fate and the V.P.P.* At the hand of Harendra Mukerji, Senior Gomashta, G.B.T.* […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Cry of the Homeless. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Cry of the Homeless After the Prussian Invasion of Belgium ‘Instigator of the ruin – Whichsoever thou mayst be Of the masterful of Europe That contrived our misery – Hear the wormwood-worded greeting From each city, shore, and lea Of thy victims: […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. In Time of Wars and Tumults. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) In Time of Wars and Tumults ‘Would that I’d not drawn breath here!’ some one said, ‘To stalk upon this stage of evil deeds, Where purposelessly month by month proceeds A play so sorely shaped and blood-bespread.’ Yet had his spark not […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. An Appeal to America on Behalf of the Belgian Destitute. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) An Appeal to America on Behalf of the Belgian Destitute Seven millions stand Emaciate, in that ancient Delta-land: – We here, full-charged with our own maimed and dead And coiled in throbbing conflicts slow and sore, Can poorly soothe these ails unmerited Of […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. On the Belgian Expatriation. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) On the Belgian Expatriation I dreamt that people from the Land of Chimes Arrived one autumn morning with their bells, To hoist them on the towers and citadels Of my own country, that the musical rhymes Rung by them into space at […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Men Who March Away. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers) What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, Leaving all that here can win us; What of the faith and fire within […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) * * * For Life I had never cared greatly, As worth a man’s while; Peradventures unsought, Peradventures that finished in nought, Had kept me from youth and through manhood till lately Unwon by its style. In earliest years – why I […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. Original Epitaph on a Drunkard. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) Original Epitaph on a Drunkard PRAY who lies here? why don’t you know, ‘Tis stammering, staggering, boozy Joe; What, dead at last? I thought that death Could never stop his long long breath. True, death ne’er threw his dart at him, But kill’d, like […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. Almoran to Eliza With a Heart of Ice. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) Almoran to Eliza With a Heart of Ice The Poets, when they paint a pair Of perfect lovers, urge their care, To give them mutual charms; If dying softness seize the fair, The swain must sure, with languid air, Dissolve into her arms. Nay […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. The Widower. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) The Widower Happy the man, who free as air, By nuptial ties no longer bound, With dearest wife lays every care Low under ground. While he with fops, sips tea with toasts; Airy, and gay, in his attire; Whose pride, in age, and winter’s […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. On Time. Джонатан Свифт. Время
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) On Time Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. Перевод на русский язык Время Кого и что я в мире разрушаю, В конечном счёте, только я решаю. Я сроки назначаю и итожу, Я мир, […]
English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Darkness. Джордж Гордон Байрон. Тьма
George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон) Darkness I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dreams. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Dreams I had a dream, a dream of dread: I thought that horror held the house; A burglar bent above my bed, He moved as quiet as a mouse. With hairy hand and naked knife He poised to plunge a bloody stroke, […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Book Lover. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Book Lover I keep collecting books I know I’ll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never head. “Please make me,” says some wistful tome, “A wee bit of yourself.” And so I take my treasure […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. A Rusty Nail. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) A Rusty Nail I ran a nail into my hand, The wound was hard to heal; So bitter was the pain to stand I thought how it would feel, To have spikes thrust through hands and feet, Impaled by hammer beat. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Romance. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Romance In Paris on a morn of May I sent a radio transalantic To catch a steamer on the way, But oh the postal fuss was frantic; They sent me here, they sent me there, They were so courteous yet so canny; […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Tunnel. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Tunnel Toil’s a tunnel, there’s no way out For fellows, the like o’ me; A beggar wi’ only a crust an’ a clout At the worst o’ the worst is free; but I work to eat, an’ I eat to work; […]