English Poetry. George Sterling. Kindred. Джордж Стерлинг.
George Sterling (Джордж Стерлинг) Kindred MUSING, between the sunset and the dark. As Twilight in unhesitating hands Bore from the faint horizon’s underlands, Silvern and chill, the moon’s phantasmal ark, Where that unalterable waste expands In sevenfold sapphire from the mournful sands, And saw beyond the deep a […]
English Poetry. George Sterling. The Islands of the Blest. Джордж Стерлинг.
George Sterling (Джордж Стерлинг) The Islands of the Blest IN CARMEL pines the summer wind Sings like a distant sea. O harps of green, your murmurs find An echoing chord in me! On Carmel shore the breakers moan Like pines that breast a gale. O […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. The Malefactor’s Plea. Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) The Malefactor’s Plea Of sentences that stir my bile, Of phrases I detest, There’s one beyond all others vile; “He did it for the best.” Of course he did: I don’t suppose, Nor can you think I should, The man’s among […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. A Parodist’s Apology. Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) A Parodist’s Apology If I’ve dared laugh at you, Robert Browning, ‘Tis with eyes that with you have often wept: You have oftener left me smiling or frowning, Than any beside, one bard except. But once you spoke to me, storm-tongued […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 6a. Nuptial Sleep. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 6a. Nuptial Sleep At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart: And as the last slow sudden drops are shed From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled, So singly flagged the pulses of each […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 81. Memorial Thresholds. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 81. Memorial Thresholds What place so strange,–though unrevealéd snow With unimaginable fires arise At the earth’s end,–what passion of surprise Like frost-bound fire-girt scenes of long ago? Lo! this is none but I this hour; and lo! […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 76. Old and New Art – 3. The Husbandman. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 76. Old and New Art – 3. The Husbandman Though God, as one that is an householder, Called these to labor in His vineyard first, Before the husk of darkness was well burst Bidding them grope their […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 70. The Hill Summit. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 70. The Hill Summit This feast-day of the sun, his altar there In the broad west has blazed for vesper-song; And I have loitered in the vale too long And gaze now a belated worshipper. Yet may […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 67. The Landmark. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 67. The Landmark Was that the landmark? What,–the foolish well Whose wave, low down, I did not stoop to drink, But sat and flung the pebbles from its brink In sport to send its imaged skies pell-mell, […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 84. Farewell to the Glen. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 84. Farewell to the Glen Sweet stream-fed glen, why say “farewell” to thee Who far’st so well and find’st for ever smooth The brow of Time where man may read no ruth? Nay, do thou rather say […]
English Poetry. Sydney Thompson Dobell. The Snowdrop In The Snow. Сидней Томпсон Добелл.
Sydney Thompson Dobell (Сидней Томпсон Добелл) The Snowdrop In The Snow O full of Faith! The Earth is rock,-the Heaven The dome of a great palace all of ice, Russ-built. Dull light distils through frozen skies Thickened and gross. Cold Fancy droops her wing, And cannot range. In […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 88. Hero’s Lamp. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 88. Hero’s Lamp That lamp thou fill’st in Eros’ name to-night, O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs take Tomorrow, and for drowned Leander’s sake To Anteros its fireless lip shall plight. Aye, waft the unspoken vow: yet […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 94. Michelangelo’s Kiss. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 94. Michelangelo’s Kiss Great Michelangelo, with age grown bleak And uttermost labours, having once o’ersaid All grievous memories on his long life shed, This worst regret to one true heart could speak:– That when, with sorrowing love […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 96. Life the Beloved. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 96. Life the Beloved As thy friend’s face, with shadow of soul o’erspread, Somewhile unto thy sight perchance hath been Ghastly and strange, yet never so is seen In thought, but to all fortunate favor wed; As […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 65. Known in Vain. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 65. Known in Vain As two whose love, first foolish, widening scope, Knows suddenly, with music high and soft, The Holy of holies; who because they scoff’d Are now amazed with shame, nor dare to cope With […]
English Poetry. Sidney Lanier. Hymns of the Marshes. 4. The Marshes of Glynn. Сидни Ланьер.
Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) Hymns of the Marshes. 4. The Marshes of Glynn GLOOMS of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,– Emerald twilights,– Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 63. Inclusiveness. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 63. Inclusiveness The changing guests, each in a different mood, Sit at the roadside table and arise: And every life among them in likewise Is a soul’s board set daily with new food. What man has bent […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 59. Love’s Last Gift. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 59. Love’s Last Gift Love to his singer held a glistening leaf, And said: “The rose-tree and the apple-tree Have fruits to vaunt or flowers to lure the bee; And golden shafts are in the feathered sheaf […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 54. Love’s Fatality. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 54. Love’s Fatality Sweet Love, but oh! most dread Desire of Love Life-thwarted. Linked in gyves I saw them stand, Love shackled with Vain-longing, hand to hand: And one was eyed as the blue vault above: But […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 48. Death-in-Love. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 48. Death-in-Love There came an image in Life’s retinue That had Love’s wings and bore his gonfalon: Fair was the web, and nobly wrought thereon, O soul-sequestered face, thy form and hue! Bewildering sounds, such as Spring […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 44. Cloud and Wind. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 44. Cloud and Wind Love, should I fear death most for you or me? Yet if you die, can I not follow you, Forcing the straits of change? Alas! but who Shall wrest a bond from night’s […]
English Poetry. Sydney Thompson Dobell. Farewell. Сидней Томпсон Добелл.
Sydney Thompson Dobell (Сидней Томпсон Добелл) Farewell Can I see thee stand On the looming land? Dost thou wave with thy white hand Farewell, farewell? I could think that thou art near, Thy sweet voice is in mine ear, Farewell, farewell! While I listen, all things seem Singing […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 40. Severed Selves. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 40. Severed Selves Two separate divided silences, Which, brought together, would find loving voice; Two glances which together would rejoice In love, now lost like stars beyond dark trees; Two hands apart whose touch alone gives ease; […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 36. Life-in-Love. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 36. Life-in-Love Not in thy body is thy life at all But in this lady’s lips and hands and eyes; Through these she yields thee life that vivifies What else were sorrow’s servant and death’s thrall. Look […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Pan in Wall Street. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Pan in Wall Street JUST where the Treasury’s marble front Looks over Wall Street’s mingled nations; Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont To throng for trade and last quotations; Where, hour by hour, the rates of gold Outrival, in the ears […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Helen Keller. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Helen Keller MUTE, sightless visitant, From what uncharted world Hast voyaged into Life’s rude sea, With guidance scant; As if some bark mysteriously Should hither glide, with spars aslant And sails all furled! In what perpetual dawn, […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. The Old School List. Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) The Old School List In a wild moraine of forgotten books, On the glacier of years gone by, As I plied my rake for order’s sake, There was one that caught my eye: And I sat by the shelf till I lost […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. Men and Women. Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) Men and Women 1. IN THE BACKS. As I was strolling lonely in the Backs, I met a woman whom I did not like. I did not like the way the woman walked: Loose-hipped, big-boned, disjointed, angular. If her anatomy comprised […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. Wordsworth. Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) Wordsworth TWO voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud’s thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. At Middle-Field Gate in February. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) At Middle-Field Gate in February The bars are thick with drops that show As they gather themselves from the fog Like silver buttons ranged in a row, And as evenly spaced as if measured, although They fall at the feeblest jog. They […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Love the Monopolist. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie) The train draws forth from the station-yard, And with it carries me. I rise, and stretch out, and regard The platform left, and see An airy slim blue form there standing, And know that it is […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Why Did I Sketch?. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) * * * Why did I sketch an upland green, And put the figure in Of one on the spot with me? – For now that one has ceased to be seen The picture waxes akin To a wordless irony. If you […]
English Poetry. Samuel Johnson. The Winter’s Walk. Сэмюэл Джонсон.
Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) The Winter’s Walk Behold, my fair, where’er we rove, What dreary prospects round us rise, The naked hill, the leafless grove, The hoary ground, the frowning skies. Nor only through the wasted plain, Stern Winter is thy force confess’d; Still wider spreads thy […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Great Things. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Great Things Sweet cyder is a great thing, A great thing to me, Spinning down to Weymouth town By Ridgway thirstily, And maid and mistress summoning Who tend the hostelry: O cyder is a great thing, A great thing to me! The […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. The House of Silence. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The House of Silence ‘That is a quiet place – That house in the trees with the shady lawn.’ ‘ – If, child, you knew what there goes on You would not call it a quiet place. Why, a phantom abides there, the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. In Her Precincts. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) In Her Precincts Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir: Yes, her gloom within at the lack of me Seemed matching mine at the lack of her. […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 90. «Retro Me, Sathana!». Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 90. «Retro Me, Sathana!» Get thee behind me. Even as, heavy-curled, Stooping against the wind, a charioteer Is snatched from out his chariot by the hair, So shall Time be; and as the void car, hurled Abroad […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 79. The Monochord. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 79. The Monochord [Written during Music] Is it the moved air or the moving sound That is Life’s self and draws my life from me, And by instinct ineffable decree Holds my breath quailing on the […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe By thine own tears thy song must tears beget, O Singer! Magic mirror thou hast none Except thy manifest heart; and save thine own Anguish or ardour, else no amulet. Cisterned in Pride, verse […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 46. Parted Love. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 46. Parted Love What shall be said of this embattled day And armed occupation of this night By all thy foes beleaguered,–now when sight Nor sound denotes the loved one far away? Of these thy vanquished hours […]