English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. Steam-Launches on the Thames. Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) Steam-Launches on the Thames Henley, June 7, 1891. Shall we, to whom the stream by right belongs, Who travel silent, save, perchance, for songs; Whose track’s a ripple,—leaves the Thames a lake, Nor frights the swan—scarce makes the rushes shake; […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies). Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies) I. The husband’s. She’s not a faultless woman; no! She’s not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She’s not an unexampled prize: She does not always see the point Of […]
English Poetry. James Kenneth Stephen. The Last Ride Together (after Browning). Джеймс Кеннет Стивен.
James Kenneth Stephen (Джеймс Кеннет Стивен) The Last Ride Together (after Browning) (From Her Point of View) When I had firmly answered ‘No’, And he allowed that that was so, I really thought I should be free For good and all from Mr B., And that he […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 2. The Mirror. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 2. The Mirror That I should love thee seemeth meet and wise, So beautiful thou art that he were mad Who in thy countenance no pleasure had; Who felt not the still music of thine […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 1. InterludeSong (Love, Love, my love). Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 4. 1. InterludeSong (Love, Love, my love) Love, Love, my love, The best things are the truest! When the earth lies shadowy dark below, O then the heavens are bluest! Deep the blue of the sky, […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 3. 31. “When the Last Doubt Is Doubted”. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 3. 31. “When the Last Doubt Is Doubted” When the last doubt is doubted, The last black shadow flown; When the last foe is routed; When the night is over and gone— Then, Love, O then! there will […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. To His Mistress, Objecting to Him Neither Toying or Talking. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) To His Mistress, Objecting to Him Neither Toying or Talking You say I love not, ’cause I do not play Still with your curls, and kiss the time away. You blame me, too, because I can’t devise Some sport, to please those babies […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. The Cruel Maid. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) The Cruel Maid —AND, cruel maid, because I see You scornful of my love, and me, I’ll trouble you no more, but go My way, where you shall never know What is become of me; there I Will find me out a path […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Upon a Delaying Lady. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Upon a Delaying Lady Come, come away Or let me go; Must I here stay Because you’re slow, And will continue so; —Troth, lady, no. I scorn to be A slave to state; And since I’m free, I will not wait, Henceforth […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Upon Her Feet. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Upon Her Feet Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at Bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. Robert Herrick’s other poems: A Paranaeticall, or Advisive Verse to His Friend, Mr John Wicks Upon Julia’s […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Love Lies Bleeding. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) Love Lies Bleeding Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun’s dart clove her: Love lies bleeding. Stately shine his purple plumes, exceeding Pride of princes: nor shall maid […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. To Dianeme (Give me one kiss). Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) To Dianeme (Give me one kiss) Give me one kiss, And no more: If so be, this Makes you poor To enrich you, I’ll restore For that one, two- Thousand score. Robert Herrick’s other poems: A Paranaeticall, or Advisive Verse to His Friend, […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Love Lightly Pleased. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Love Lightly Pleased Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me; Or let her walk, or stand, or sit, The posture her’s, I’m pleased with it; Or let her tongue be still, or stir Graceful is every […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Anthea’s Retractation. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Anthea’s Retractation Anthea laugh’d, and, fearing lest excess Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness She with a dainty blush rebuked her face, And call’d each line back to his rule and space. Robert Herrick’s other poems: The Present Time Best Pleaseth The […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. To Oenone. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) To Oenone What conscience, say, is it in thee, When I a heart had one, [won] To take away that heart from me, And to retain thy own? For shame or pity, now incline To play a loving part; Either to send […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Poet and His Book. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Poet and His Book Here are my thoughts, alive within this fold, My simple sheep. Their shepherd, I grow wise As dearly, gravely, deeply I behold Their different eyes. O distant pastures in their blood! O streams From watersheds that fed them […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Lord’s Prayer. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Lord’s Prayer “Audemus dicere ‘Pater Noster.'” — CANON OF THE MASS. There is a bolder way, There is a wilder enterprise than this All-human iteration day by day. Courage, mankind! Restore Him what is His. Out of His mouth were […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Two Questions. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Two Questions “A riddling world!” one cried. “If pangs must be, would God that they were sent To the impure, the cruel, and passed aside The holy innocent!” But I, “Ah no, no, no! Not the clean heart transpierced; not tears that […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. Free Will. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) Free Will Dear are some hidden things My soul has sealed in silence; past delights; Hope unconfessed; desires with hampered wings, Remembered in the nights. But my best treasures are Ignoble, undelightful, abject, cold; Yet O! profounder hoards oracular No reliquaries hold. […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Divine Privilege. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Divine Privilege Lord, where are Thy prerogatives? Why, men have more than Thou hast kept; The king rewards, remits, forgives, The poet to a throne has stept. And Thou, despoiled, hast given away Worship to men, success to strife, Thy glory to […]
English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Match. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн) A Match If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pasture or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. In Sleep. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) In Sleep I dreamt (no “dream” awake—a dream indeed) A wrathful man was talking in the park: “Where are the Higher Powers, who know our need And leave us in the dark? “There are no Higher Powers; there is no heart In God, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. A Wind of Clear Weather in England. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) A Wind of Clear Weather in England O what a miracle wind is this Has crossed the English land to-day With an unprecedented kiss, And wonderfully found a way! Unsmirched incredibly and clean, Between the towns and factories, Avoiding, has his long flight […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Aprilian. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Aprilian When April came with sunshine And showers and lilac bloom, My heart with sudden gladness Was like a fragrant room. Her eyes were heaven’s own azure, As deep as God’s own truth. Her soul was made of rapture And mystery and youth. […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. In Gold Lacquer. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) In Gold Lacquer Gold are the great trees overhead, And gold the leaf-strewn grass, As though a cloth of gold were spread To let a seraph pass. And where the pageant should go by, Meadow and wood and stream, The world is all of […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Garden Magic. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Garden Magic Within my stone-walled garden (I see her standing now, Uplifted in the twilight, With glory on her brow!) I love to walk at evening And watch, when winds are low, The new moon in the tree-tops, Because she loved it so! […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. The Garden of Dreams. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) The Garden of Dreams My heart is a garden of dreams Where you walk when day is done, Fair as the royal flowers, Calm as the lingering sun. Never a drouth comes there, Nor any frost that mars, Only the wind of love […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. A Remembrance. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) A Remembrance Here in lovely New England When summer is come, a sea-turn Flutters a page of remembrance In the volume of long ago. Soft is the wind over Grand Pré, Stirring the heads of the grasses, Sweet is the breath of the […]
English Poetry. Bliss Carman. Vestigia. Блисс Кармен.
Bliss Carman (Блисс Кармен) Vestigia I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His footprint in the sod. Then suddenly, all unaware, Far off in […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Beauty (The search for beauty is the search for God). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Beauty (The search for beauty is the search for God) The search for beauty is the search for God, Who is All Beauty. He who seeks shall find; And all along the paths my feet have trod, I have sought hungrily with heart […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Beautiful Land of Nod. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Beautiful Land of Nod Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful Land of Nod; Away from life’s hurry, and flurry, and worry, Away from […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. Dedication. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) Dedication MY first gift and my last, to you I dedicate this fascicle of songs - The only wealth I have: Just as they are, to you. I speak the truth in soberness, and say I had rather bring a light […]
English Poetry. Robert Greene. Sephestia’s Lullaby. Роберт Грин.
Robert Greene (Роберт Грин) Sephestia’s Lullaby WEEP not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there ‘s grief enough for thee. Mother’s wag, pretty boy, Father’s sorrow, father’s joy; When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, […]
English Poetry. Robert Greene. Farewell to Folly. Роберт Грин.
Robert Greene (Роберт Грин) Farewell to Folly Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune’s angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. The Honey-Bee. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) The Honey-Bee O bee, good-by! Your weapon’s gone, And you anon Are doomed to die; But Death to you can bring No second sting. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms The Pleiads A Duet […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Butterfly. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Butterfly Butterfly, Butterfly, sipping the sand, Have you forgotten the flowers of the land? Or are you so sated with honey and dew That sand-filtered water tastes better to you John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Chimney Stacks. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) Chimney Stacks In winter’s cold and summer’s heat The hospitable chimneys greet Their never-failing guests; For when the sparks are upward gone, The swallows downward come anon, To build their neighboring nests. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: The Bobolink The Bee and […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. The Woodpecker. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) The Woodpecker The wizard of the woods is he; For in his daily round, Where’er he finds a rotting tree, He makes the timber sound. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms A Duet Butterfly […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. The Bluebird. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) The Bluebird When God had made a host of them, One little flower still lacked a stem To hold its blossom blue; So into it He breathed a song, And suddenly, with petals strong As wings, away it flew. John Bannister Tabb’s […]