English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Summing Up. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Summing Up When you have sailed the seven seas And looped the ends of earth, You’ll long at last for slippered ease Beside a bonny hearth; A cosy cottage in the sun, A pleasant page to read - You’ll find when […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Damned. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Damned My days are haunted by the thought Of men in coils of Justice caught With stone and steel, in chain and cell, Of men condemned to living hell,– Yet blame them not. In my sun-joy their dark I see: […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Reverence. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Reverence I saw the Greatest Man on Earth, Aye, saw him with my proper eyes. A loin-cloth spanned his proper girth, But he was naked otherwise, Excepting for his grey sombrero; And when his domelike head he bared, With reverence I stared […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Guardian Angel. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) My Guardian Angel When looking back I dimly see The trails my feet have trod, Some hand divine, it seems to me, Has pulled the strings with God; Some angel form has lifeward leaned When hope for me was past; Some love […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. The Prologue. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) The Prologue Exult each patriot heart!-this night is shewn A piece, which we may fairly call our own; Where the proud titles of ‘My Lord! Your Grace!’ To humble Mr. and plain Sir give place. Our Author pictures not from foreign climes The fashions, […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. Market Women’s Cries. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) Market Women’s Cries APPLES COME buy my fine wares, Plums, apples and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have any? My children are seven, I wish them in Heaven; My husband ’s a sot, With his pipe […]
English Poetry. Royall Tyler. My Mistresses. Ройалл Тайлер.
Royall Tyler (Ройалл Тайлер) My Mistresses LET Cowley soft in amorous verse The rovings of his love rehearse, With passion most unruly, Boast how he woo’d sweet Amoret, The sobbing Jane, and sprightly Bet, The lily fair and smart brunette, In sweet succession truly. But list, ye […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Loss and Restoration of Smell. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Loss and Restoration of Smell Dull to the year’s first odours, I rebelled Against the law which doomed the violets Ere I had smelt them; but, ere long, I held A quickened nostril over all the sweets Of the full summer–for I […]
English Poetry. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. First Series. 27. So to the mind long brooding but on it. Фредерик Годдард Такерман.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Фредерик Годдард Такерман) First Series. 27. So to the mind long brooding but on it So to the mind long brooding but on it A haunting theme for anger, joy, or tears, With ardent eyes, not what we think appears; But hunted home, behold! its […]
English Poetry. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. First Series. 13. As one who walks and weeps by alien brine. Фредерик Годдард Такерман.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Фредерик Годдард Такерман) First Series. 13. As one who walks and weeps by alien brine As one who walks and weeps by alien brine And hears the heavy land-wash break, so I, Apart from friends, remote in misery, But brood on pain and find in […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. A Forest Sunset. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) A Forest Sunset Once on a glorious and resplendent eve, Through copse and underwood my path I broke; The shining sun was on the point to leave, And flashed through thickets of the pine and oak; ‘Twas sweet to see those vari-coloured […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. The Sea-Side Truants. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) The Sea-Side Truants Wildly she passed along that crowded shore, With earnest eye fixed on the ocean rim: On came the tide, and all would soon wax dim, And she might never see her darlings more. But lo! what means that sail-like […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. East or West?. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) East or West? I sat within a window, looking west, On a fair autumn eve; the forest leaves Moved o’er a fiery sunset, vision blest After that day of storm and rainy eaves. While thus I gazed, I heard a sweet voice […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Prefatory. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Prefatory I dreamed I wrote an ode, and was not slack To bring it where two mighty umpires dealt The prize; but deep-mouthed Pindar bade me back, And laughing Horace–like a boy I felt, Who, idly thrumming on a single hair, Stretched […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Rival. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) My Rival If she met him or he met her, I knew that something must occur; For they were just like flint and steel To strike the spark of woe and weal; Or like two splinters broken fine, In perfect fitness to […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. L’Envoi (Ever in the ebb and flow). Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) L’Envoi (Ever in the ebb and flow) Ever in the ebb and flow Of my dreams that come and go, Reader, I have you in mind, Humbly hoping you will find In my verse a gleam that’s true To the dreams that […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. On the Moon. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) On the Moon I with borrow’d silver shine What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole. What will […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Bird Watcher. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Bird Watcher In Wall Street once a potent power, And now a multi-millionaire Alone within a shady bower In clothes his valet would not wear, He watches bird wings bright the air. The man who mighty mergers planned, And oil and […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Aftermath. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Aftermath Although my blood I’ve shed In war’s red wrath, Oh how I darkly dread Its aftermath! Oh how I fear the day Of my release, When I must face the fray Of phoney peace! When I must fend again […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Susie. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Susie My daughter Susie, aged two, Apes me in every way, For as my household chores I do With brooms she loves to play. A scrubbing brush to her is dear; Ah! Though my soul it vex, My bunch of cuteness has, […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Prelude (They say that rhyme and rhythm are). Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Prelude (They say that rhyme and rhythm are) They say that rhyme and rhythm are Outmoded now. I do not know, for I am far From high of brow. But if the twain you take away, Since basely bred, Proud Poetry, I […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. L’Envoi. Departmental Dittles. Редьярд Киплинг. L’Envoi к «Департаментским песенкам»
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) L’Envoi. Departmental Dittles The smoke upon your Altar dies, The flowers decay, The Goddess of your sacrifice Has flown away. What profit then to sing or slay The sacrifice from day to day? “We know the Shrine is void,” they said. “The Goddess […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. Divided Destinies. Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о Бандаре, или Обезьяне
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) Divided Destinies It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine, And many many other things, till, o’er my morning smoke, I slept the sleep of idleness and dreamt […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Beginnings. Редьярд Киплинг. Англия вступает в войну
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Beginnings 1914-18 “Mary Postgate”– A Diversity of Creatures It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the English began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. L’Envoi (THERE ‘s a whisper down the field). Редьярд Киплинг.
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) L’Envoi (THERE ‘s a whisper down the field) THERE ‘s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield And the ricks stand gray to the sun, Singing:—’Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover And your English […]
English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. The Ballad of the «Clampherdown». Редьярд Киплинг. Баллада о «Кламфердауне»
Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг) The Ballad of the «Clampherdown» It was our war-ship Clampherdown Would sweep the Channel clean, Wherefore she kept her hatches close When the merry Channel chops arose, To save the bleached marine. She had one bow-gun of a hundred ton And a great […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. The Planet and the Tree. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) The Planet and the Tree The evening breeze is blowing from the lea Upon the fluttering elm; thou hast a mind, O star! methinks, to settle in the tree– But, ever baffled by the pettish wind, Thou movest back and forward, and […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. A New Year’s Gift for Bec. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) A New Year’s Gift for Bec Returning Janus now prepares, For Bec, a new supply of cares, Sent in a bag to Dr. Swift, Who thus displays the new-year’s gift. First, this large parcel brings you tidings Of our good Dean’s eternal chidings; Of […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Morning Sorrows. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Morning Sorrows Sad memory wakes anew at morning’s touch And, as some muscles move without our will, She seizes, with involuntary clutch, The sorrow that we hate, our bosom ill; But we are formed with such fine wisdom, such A Providence our […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth I of England. Importune Me No More. Елизавета I.
Elizabeth I of England ( Елизавета I) Importune Me No More WHEN I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many I was sought, their mistress for to be: But I did scorn them all, and answer’d them therefore, “Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere! Importune* […]
English Poetry. Elizabeth I of England. On Monsieur’s Departure, 1582. Елизавета I.
Elizabeth I of England ( Елизавета I) On Monsieur’s Departure, 1582 I GRIEVE and dare not show my discontent; I love, and yet am forced to seem to hate; I do, yet dare not say I ever meant; I seem stark mute, but inwardly do prate. I am, […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Favourite Fan. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) My Favourite Fan Being a writer I receive Sweet screeds from folk of every land; Some are so weird you’d scarce believe, And some quite hard to understand: But as a conscientious man I type my thanks to all I can. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Laziness. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Laziness Let laureates sing with rapturous swing Of the wonder and glory of work; Let pulpiteers preach and with passion impeach The indolent wretches who shirk. No doubt they are right: in the stress of the fight It’s the slackers who go […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Jaloppy Joy. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Jaloppy Joy Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With a rattle and a jar, hark! I sing a happy ditty, As I speed my Master far From the poison […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dedication. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) Dedication In youth I longed to paint The loveliness I saw; And yet by dire constraint I had to study Law. But now all that is past, And I have no regret, For I am free at last Law to forget. […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. A Little Prayer. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) A Little Prayer Let us be thankful, Lord, for little things - The song of birds, the rapture of the rose; Cloud-dappled skies, the laugh of limpid springs, Drowned sunbeams and the perfume April blows; Bronze wheat a-shimmer, purple shade of trees […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Wee Shop. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Wee Shop She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop was, meek and shrinking, The sum of all her dreams and hopes and fears. Ere it was opened I […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Lunger. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Lunger Jack would laugh an’ joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin’ like a medder lark, Loaded to the Plimsoll mark With God’s sunshine was that boy; Had a strangle-holt on Joy. Held his head ‘way up in […]
English Poetry. Robert William Service. The Junior God. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис) The Junior God The Junior God looked from his place In the conning towers of heaven, And he saw the world through the span of space Like a giant golf-ball driven. And because he was bored, as some gods are, With high […]
English Poetry. Jonathan Swift. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. Джонатан Свифт.
Jonathan Swift (Джонатан Свифт) A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane, For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain; Never did Covent Garden boast So bright a batter’d, strolling Toast; No drunken Rake to pick her up, No Cellar where on Tick to sup; Returning […]