English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Mother of Three. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Mother of Three Oh, to have a little farm, A little hearth so warm and bright, And three little boys all safe from harm In from the winter night! A little house with white-washed wall, And thatched like any golden rick, And […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Any Mother. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Any Mother ‘What’s the news? Now tell it me.’ ‘Allenby again advances.’ ‘No, it is not Allenby But my boy, straight as a lance is. ‘Oh, my boy it is that runs, Hurls his young and slender body On the dread death-dealing guns. […]
English Poetry. Edward Thomas. Two Pewits. Эдвард Томас.
Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) Two Pewits Under the after-sunset sky Two pewits sport and cry, More white than is the moon on high Riding the dark surge silently; More black than earth. Their cry Is the one sound under the sky. They alone move, now low, now high, […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Test. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Test Love has moods: and I am cold, Very cold ofttimes to Thee; Fain to slip from Thy dear hold To my follies and be free. Yet I love: Thou knowest all. I am Thine in heat and chill; Thou, Thou hast […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. High Summer. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) High Summer Pinks and syringa in the garden closes And the sweet privet hedge and golden roses. The pines hot in the sun, the drone of the bee; They die in Flanders to keep these for me. The long sunny days and the […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Crown. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Crown She had twelve stars for diadem; She had for footstool the full moon; Her quiet eyes, outshining them, Kept memories of the night and noon And the still moms at Nazareth When in her arms the Child drew breath. So safe, […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Young Soldier. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Young Soldier Since you were so young, child, I shall Not fear your noon or even-fall, Nor dread you are taken unawares, Nor weary Heaven with many prayers. I shall not wake at night afraid Of where your darling head is laid, […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Little Old Woman. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Little Old Woman There’s a Little Old Woman walks in the night, Singing her love song like a falling keen; The Little Old Woman is the heart’s delight, With the gold crown under her hood to tell her queen. The Little Old […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Wings in the Night. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Wings in the Night Now in the soft spring midnight There’s rush of wings and whirr, Birds flying softly, swiftly; The night’s a-flutter, a-stir. Home by the bitter seas, They have sped home together. So glad to be coming home To the grey […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The White Ship. Данте Габриэль Россетти. Белый Корабль
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The White Ship Henry I. of England. – 25th Nov., 1120. By none but me can the tale be told, The butcher of Rouen, poor Berold. (Lands are swayed by a King on a throne.) ‘Twas a royal train put forth […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. The Land of Washington. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) The Land of Washington I glory in the sages Who, in the days of yore, In combat met the foemen, And drove them from our shore. Who flung our banner’s starry field In triumph to the breeze, And spread broad maps of […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. The Cottager’s Welcome. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) The Cottager’s Welcome Hard by I’ve a cottage that stands near the wood— A stream glides in peace at the door— Where all who will tarry, ’tis well understood, Receive hospitality’s store. To cheer that the brook and the thicket afford, The […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. A Bird from the West. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) A Bird from the West At the grey dawn, amongst the felling leaves, A little bird outside my window swung, High on a topmost branch he trilled his song, And “Ireland! Ireland! Ireland!” ever sung. Take me, I cried, back to […]
English Poetry. Edward Thomas. The Brook. Эдвард Томас.
Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) The Brook Seated once by a brook, watching a child Chiefly that paddled, I was thus beguiled. Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush Not far off in oak and hazel brush, Unseen. There was a scent like honeycomb From mugwort dull. And […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. The Lover. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) The Lover I go through wet spring woods alone, Through sweet green woods with heart of stone, My weary foot upon the grass Falls heavy as I pass. The cuckoo from the distance cries, The lark a pilgrim in the skies; But […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. A Weeping Cupid. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) A Weeping Cupid Why love! I thought you were gay and fair, Merry of mien and debonair. What then means this brow so black, Whose sullen gloom twin eyes give back, Poor little god in tears, alack! Why love! I thought […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. At Christmas Time. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) At Christmas Time For that old love I once adored I decked my halls and spread my board At Christmas time. With all the winter’s flowers that grow I wreathed my room, and mistletoe Hung in the gloom of my doorway, Wherein […]
English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Rising of the Storm. Пол Лоренс Данбар.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар) The Rising of the Storm The lake’s dark breast Is all unrest, It heaves with a sob and a sigh. Like a tremulous bird, From its slumber stirred, The moon is a-tilt in the sky. From the silent deep The waters […]
English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Lesson. Пол Лоренс Данбар.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар) The Lesson My cot was down by a cypress grove, And I sat by my window the whole night long, And heard well up from the deep dark wood A mocking-bird’s passionate song. And I thought of myself so sad and […]
English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Life. Пол Лоренс Данбар.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар) Life A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is […]
English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Frederick Douglass. Пол Лоренс Данбар.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар) Frederick Douglass A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave has passed beyond the mists And vapors that obscure the sun of life. And Ethiopia, with bosom torn, Laments the […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Joy. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Joy What were this life without her? Joy, whose young face is sweet With dreams that flit about her, And rapture wild of feet! With hope, that knows no languor, And love, that knows no sighs, And mirth, like some rich […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Sunset on the River. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Sunset on the River I. A Sea of onyx are the skies, Cloud-islanded with fire; Such nacre-colored flame as dyes A sea-shell’s rosy spire; And at its edge one star sinks slow, Burning, into the overglow. II. Save for […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Creek. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Creek O cheerly, cheerly by the road And merrily down the billet; And where the acre-field is sowed With bristle-bearded millet. Then o’er a pebbled path that goes, Through vista and through dingle, Unto a farmstead’s windowed rose, And roof […]
English Poetry. Edward Thomas. Fifty Faggots. Эдвард Томас.
Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) Fifty Faggots There they stand, on their ends, the fifty fag gots That once were underwood of hazel and ash In Jenny Pink’s copse. Now, by the hedge Close packed, they make a thicket fancy alone Can creep through with the mouse and wren. […]
English Poetry. William Shakespeare. Sonnet 2. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow. Уильям Шекспир. Сонет 2. Когда твое чело избороздят
William Shakespeare (Уильям Шекспир) Sonnet 2. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held: Then being asked, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Vampire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Vampire A lily in a twilight place? A moonflow’r in the lonely night? - Strange beauty of a woman’s face Of wildflow’r-white! The rain that hangs a star’s green ray Slim on a leaf-point’s restlessness, Is not so glimmering green […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Torrent. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Torrent Here is a tale for workmen and their masters: There was a torrent once that down a mountain Flashed its resistless way; a foaming fountain, Basaltic-built, ‘twixt cataract-hewn pilasters. Down from its eagle eyrie nearer, nearer, Its savage beauty born […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Sleeper. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Sleeper She sleeps and dreams; one milk-white, lawny arm Pillowing her heavy hair, as might cold Night Meeting her sister Day, with glory warm, Subside in languor on her bosom’s white. The naked other on the damask cloth, - White, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Quarrel. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Quarrel Could I divine how her gray eyes Gat such cold haughtiness of skies; How, some wood-flower’s shadow brown, Dimmed her fair forehead’s wrath a frown; How, rippled sunshine blown thro’ air, Tossed scorn her eloquence of hair; […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Witnesses. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Witnesses I. You say I do not love you! – Tell me why, When I have gazed a little on your face, And then gone forth into the world of men, A beauty, neither of the Earth or Sky, A glamour, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Night and Rain. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Night and Rain The night has set her outposts there Of wind and rain; And to and fro, with ragged hair, At intervals they search the pane. The fir-trees, creepers redly climb, That seem to bleed, Like old conspirators in crime, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Love and the Sea. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Love and the Sea Love one day, in childish anger, Tired of his divinity, Sick of rapture, sick of languor, Threw his arrows in the sea. Since then Ocean, like a woman, Variable of nature seems: Smiling; cruel; kind; inhuman; Gloomed with […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Epiphany. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Epiphany There is nothing that eases my heart so much As the wind that blows from the purple hills; ‘Tis a hand of balsam whose healing touch Unburdens my bosom of ills. There is nothing that causes my soul to rejoice […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Dream Road. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Dream Road I took the road again last night On which my boyhood’s hills look down; The old road leading from the town, The village there below the height, Its cottage homes, all huddled brown, Each with its blur of light. […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. At Christmas Time. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) At Christmas Time For that old love I once adored I decked my halls and spread my board At Christmas time. With all the winter’s flowers that grow I wreathed my room, and mistletoe Hung in the gloom of my doorway, Wherein […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Catkins. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Catkins I. Misty are the far-off hills And misty are the near; Purple hazes dimly lie Veiling hill and field and sky, Marshes where the hylas cry, Like a myriad bills Piping, “Spring is here!” II. A redbird flits, […]
English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Rising of the Storm. Пол Лоренс Данбар.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар) The Rising of the Storm The lake’s dark breast Is all unrest, It heaves with a sob and a sigh. Like a tremulous bird, From its slumber stirred, The moon is a-tilt in the sky. From the silent deep The waters […]
English Poetry. Alfred Tennyson. The War. Альфред Теннисон.
Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) The War There is a sound of thunder afar, Storm in the south that darkens the day, Storm of battle and thunder of war, Well, if it do not roll our way. Form! form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm! Riflemen, […]
English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Lesson. Пол Лоренс Данбар.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар) The Lesson My cot was down by a cypress grove, And I sat by my window the whole night long, And heard well up from the deep dark wood A mocking-bird’s passionate song. And I thought of myself so sad and […]