English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. A Basket of Flowers. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) A Basket of Flowers from Dawn to Dusk Dawn On skies still and starlit White lustres take hold, And grey flushes scarlet, And red flashes gold. And sun-glories cover The rose shed above her, Like lover and lover They flame […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Romance of Britomarte. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) The Romance of Britomarte As related by Sergeant Leigh on the night he got his captaincy at the Restoration. I’ll tell you a story; but pass the “jack”, And let us make merry to-night, my men. Aye, those were the days […]
English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Three Friends. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Адам Линдсей Гордон) The Three Friends (From the French) The sword slew one in deadly strife; One perish’d by the bowl; The third lies self-slain by the knife; For three the bells may toll— I loved her better than my life, And better than […]
English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. The Moon-path. Арчибальд Лемпман.
Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман) The Moon-path The full, clear moon uprose and spread Her cold, pale splendor o’er the sea; A light-strewn path that seemed to lead Outward into eternity. Between the darkness and the gleam An old-world spell encompassed me: Methought that in a godlike dream I […]
English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. Cloud-break. Арчибальд Лемпман.
Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман) Cloud-break With a turn of his magical rod, That extended and suddenly shone, From the round of his glory some god Looks forth and is gone. To the summit of heaven the clouds Are rolling aloft like steam; There’s a break in their […]
English Poetry. Gerald Massey. The Vision. Джеральд Масси.
Gerald Massey (Джеральд Масси) The Vision THE sleep of the Dreamer is dying; The Dream is about to be born! ‘Tis a vision of England untying Poor Ireland’s Crown of Thorn! The Night with its shadows is flying, And we shall see clearer at morn: We feel the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Autumn (The Autumn is old). Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Autumn (The Autumn is old) The Autumn is old, The sere leaves are flying;– He hath gather’d up gold, And now he is dying;– Old Age, begin sighing! The vintage is ripe, The harvest is heaping;– But some that have sow’d Have […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy. Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy I. Ah me! those old familiar bounds! That classic house, those classic grounds My pensive thought recalls! What tender urchins now confine, What little captives now repine, Within yon irksome walls? II. […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hood. The Two Swans. Томас Гуд (Худ).
Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) The Two Swans A FAIRY TALE. I. Immortal Imogen, crown’d queen above The lilies of thy sex, vouchsafe to hear A fairy dream in honor of true love– True above ills, and frailty, and all fear,– Perchance a shadow of his […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Sleep. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) Sleep O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, Silent distiller of the balm of rest, How wonderful thy power, when naught else can, To soothe the torn and sorrow-laden breast! When bleeding hearts no comforter can find, When burdened souls droop under […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Life. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) Life Out of the infinite sea of eternity To climb, and for an instant stand Upon an island speck of time. From the impassible peace of the darkness To wake, and blink at the garish light Through one short hour of […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. The Word of an Engineer. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) The Word of an Engineer “She’s built of steel From deck to keel, And bolted strong and tight; In scorn she’ll sail The fiercest gale, And pierce the darkest night. “The builder’s art Has proved each part Throughout her breadth and […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Voluptas. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) Voluptas To chase a never-reached mirage Across the hot, white sand, And choke and die, while gazing on Its green and watered strand. James Weldon Johnson’s other poems: Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl The Color Sergeant Mother Night […]
English Poetry. Walter Savage Landor. To Charles Dickens. Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор.
Walter Savage Landor (Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор) To Charles Dickens Go then to Italy; but mind To leave the pale low France behind; Pass through that country, nor ascend The Rhine, nor over Tyrol wend: Thus all at once shall rise more grand The glories of the ancient land. […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Yale Ode for Commencement Day. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Yale Ode for Commencement Day I Hark! through the archways old High voices manifold Sing praise to our fair Mother, praise to Yale! The Muses’ rustling garments trail; White arms, with myrtle and with laurel wound, Bring crowns to […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Meridian. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Meridian AN OLD-FASHIONED POEM The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Yale Class of 1853 Inque brevi spatio mutantur sæcla animantum Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt. Lucretius, De Rer. Nat. Lib. ii. I The tryst is kept. How […]
English Poetry. James Elroy Flecker. The Old Ships. Джеймс Элрой Флеккер.
James Elroy Flecker (Джеймс Элрой Флеккер) The Old Ships I have seen old ships like swans asleep Beyond the village which men call Tyre, With leaden age o’ercargoed, dipping deep For Famagusta and the hidden sun That rings black Cyprus with a lake of fire; And all those […]
English Poetry. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Round the Old Board. Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман.
Edmund Clarence Stedman (Эдмунд Кларенс Стедман) Round the Old Board Vigintennial Dinner, Class of 1853 Air—”Cheer, Boys, Cheer!” Round the old board once more we feast together! Thrice and again our hearts have drawn us here; Long have we sailed, in fair and stormy weather; […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. The King of England. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) The King of England (June 24th, 1902) In that eclipse of noon when joy was hushed Like the bird’s song beneath unnatural night, And Terror’s footfall in the darkness crushed The rose imperial of our delight, Then, even then, though no man cried […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. Victoria Regina. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) Victoria Regina (June 21st, 1897*) A thousand years by sea and land Our race hath served the island kings, But not by custom’s dull command To-day with song her Empire rings: Not all the glories of her birth, Her armed renown and […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. England. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) England Praise thou with praise unending, The Master of the Wine; To all their portions sending Himself he mingled thine: The sea-born flush of morning, The sea-born hush of night, The East wind comfort scorning, And the North wind driving right: The […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. The Best School of All. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) The Best School of All It’s good to see the school we knew, The land of youth and dream. To greet again the rule we knew Before we took the stream: Though long we’ve missed the sight of her, Our hearts may not forget; […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. The Echo. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) The Echo Of A Ballad Sung By H. Plunket Greene To His Old School Twice three hundred boys were we, Long ago, long ago, Where the Downs look out to the Severn Sea. Clifton for aye! We held by the game and hailed […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. Commemoration. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) Commemoration I sat by the granite pillar, and sunlight fell Where the sunlight fell of old, And the hour was the hour my heart remembered well, And the sermon rolled and rolled As it used to roll when the place was still unhaunted, And […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. April on Waggon Hill. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) April on Waggon Hill Lad, and can you rest now, There beneath your hill! Your hands are on your breast now, But is your heart so still? ‘Twas the right death to die, lad, A gift without regret, But unless truth’s a lie, lad, […]
English Poetry. Henry Newbolt. Peace. Генри Ньюболт.
Henry Newbolt (Генри Ньюболт) Peace No more to watch by Night’s eternal shore, With England’s chivalry at dawn to ride; No more defeat, faith, victory—-O! no more A cause on earth for which we might have died. Henry Newbolt’s other poems: The Death of Admiral Blake The Quarter-Gunner’s […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. The Peter-Bird. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) The Peter-Bird Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes it over; Down in the pasture the sheep hear that strange crying for Peter, Over the meadows that call is aye […]
English Poetry. James Elroy Flecker. Ideal. Джеймс Элрой Флеккер.
James Elroy Flecker (Джеймс Элрой Флеккер) Ideal When all my gentle friends had gone I wandered in the night alone: Beneath the green electric glare I saw men pass with hearts of stone. Yet still I heard them everywhere, Those golden voices of the air: ‘Friend, we will […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. By My Sweetheart. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) By My Sweetheart Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When birds are on the wing, When bee and bud and babbling flood Bespeak the birth of spring, Come, sweetheart, be my sweetheart And wear this posy-ring! Sweetheart, be my sweetheart In the mellow golden glow […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Lyman, Frederick, and Jim. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Lyman, Frederick, and Jim (FOR THE FELLOWSHIP CLUB) Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day, Set out in a great big ship— Steamed to the ocean adown the bay Out of a New York slip. “Where are you going and what is your […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Winfreda. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Winfreda (A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda’s husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda bode at home To toil the weary time away; “While thou art gone to hunt,” said she, “I’ll brew a goodly sop […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Dr. Sam. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Dr. Sam TO MISS GRACE KING Down in the old French quarter, Just out of Rampart street, I wend my way At close of day Unto the quaint retreat Where lives the Voodoo Doctor By some esteemed a sham, Yet I’ll declare there’s […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Pan Liveth. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Pan Liveth They told me once that Pan was dead, And so, in sooth, I thought him; For vainly where the streamlets led Through flowery meads I sought him— Nor in his dewy pasture bed Nor in the grove I caught him. “Tell me,” […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. The Two Little Skeezucks. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) The Two Little Skeezucks There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked in heathenish style In the boughs of their cocoanut tree. They didn’t fret much about clothing and such And they […]
English Poetry. William Ernest Henley. Rhymes and Rhythms. 12. Some Starlit Garden Grey with Dew. Уильям Эрнст Хенли.
William Ernest Henley (Уильям Эрнст Хенли) Rhymes and Rhythms. 12. Some Starlit Garden Grey with Dew Some starlit garden grey with dew, Some chamber flushed with wine and fire, What matters where, so I and you Are worthy our desire? Behind, a past that scolds and jeers […]
English Poetry. William Schwenck Gilbert. Songs of a Savoyard. The Darned Mounseer. Уильям Швенк Гильберт.
William Schwenck Gilbert (Уильям Швенк Гильберт) Songs of a Savoyard. The Darned Mounseer I shipped, d’ye see, in a Revenue sloop, And, off Cape Finisteere, A merchantman we see, A Frenchman, going free, So we made for the bold Mounseer, D’ye see? We made for the bold Mounseer! […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 11. “O Mighty River, Triumphing to the Sea”. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 11. “O Mighty River, Triumphing to the Sea” O mighty river, triumphing to the sea, Strong, calm, and solemn as thy mountains be! Poets have sung thy ever-living power, Thy wintry day, and summer sunset hour; Have […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 10. The Violin. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 10. The Violin Before the listening world behold him stand; The warm air trembles with his passionate play; Their cheers shower round him like the ocean spray Round one who waits upon the stormy strand. Their […]
English Poetry. James Elroy Flecker. A Western Voyage. Джеймс Элрой Флеккер.
James Elroy Flecker (Джеймс Элрой Флеккер) A Western Voyage My friend the Sun—like all my friends Inconstant, lovely, far away - Is out, and bright, and condescends To glory in our holiday. A furious march with him I’ll go And race him in the Western train, And wake […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 9. “Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow”. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 9. “Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow” Summer’s rain and winter’s snow With the seasons come and go; Shine and shower; Tender bud and perfect flower; Silver blossom, golden fruit; Song and lute, With their inward sound of […]