English Poetry. John Reuben Thompson. Music in Camp. Джон Рубен Томпсон.
John Reuben Thompson (Джон Рубен Томпсон) Music in Camp Two armies covered hill and plain, Where Rappahannock’s waters Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain Of battle’s recent slaughters. The summer clouds lay pitched like tents In meads of heavenly azure; And each dread gun of the elements […]
English Poetry. John Reuben Thompson. The Burial of Latane. Джон Рубен Томпсон.
John Reuben Thompson (Джон Рубен Томпсон) The Burial of Latane The combat ranged not long, but our’s the day; And through the hosts that compassed us around Our little band rode proudly on its way, Leaving one gallant comrade, glory-crowned, Unburied on the field he died to gain, […]
English Poetry. Edith Matilda Thomas. How the Christmas Tree Was Brought to Nome. Эдит Матильда Томас.
Edith Matilda Thomas (Эдит Матильда Томас) How the Christmas Tree Was Brought to Nome Night of the winter–winter and night in the city of Nome, There where the many are dwelling, but no man yet has a home! Desolate league upon league, ice-pack and tundra and hill; And […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. Katherine. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) Katherine We see you as we see a face That trembles in a forest place Upon the mirror of a pool Forever quiet, clear and cool; And in the wayward glass, appears To hover between smiles and tears, Elfin and human, airy […]
English Poetry. Edith Matilda Thomas. Refreshments for Santa Claus. Эдит Матильда Томас.
Edith Matilda Thomas (Эдит Матильда Томас) Refreshments for Santa Claus “It may be late and stormy and cold When Santa Claus reaches our street; And Santa, you know, is very old, So I’ll leave him something to eat.” “And what do you think he would like, dear […]
English Poetry. Edith Matilda Thomas. A Christmas Spy. Эдит Матильда Томас.
Edith Matilda Thomas (Эдит Матильда Томас) A Christmas Spy When Poebe brought the wood and coal; To lay the fire, what did she see But Baby–dropped upon one knee And peering up the chimney-hole! She never turned her little head, With all its curly, yellow hair: I […]
English Poetry. Edith Matilda Thomas. Her Christmas Present. Эдит Матильда Томас.
Edith Matilda Thomas (Эдит Матильда Томас) Her Christmas Present A True Incident With doll in arms to court she came,– A mite of tender years Between her sobs she put the case, Her eyes brimmed up with tears. “They’ve put my mamma into jail– And oh, […]
English Poetry. Clinton Scollard. The Cripple. Клинтон Сколлард.
Clinton Scollard (Клинтон Сколлард) The Cripple I have dreams of the outer islands, Firths and forths of the Far-Away; I have dreams of the heathery highlands Under the golden day. I have dreams of a sliding river– Shannon–under the stars and sun; I have dreams how the […]
English Poetry. Clinton Scollard. At Killybegs. Клинтон Сколлард.
Clinton Scollard (Клинтон Сколлард) At Killybegs At Killybegs above the crags The gray gulls pipe with voices thinned, And all the green trees are like flags That wave and waver in the wind. At Killybegs about the dunes Rustle the crispy grass and whin, And low the […]
English Poetry. Clinton Scollard. The Hill of Maeve. Клинтон Сколлард.
Clinton Scollard (Клинтон Сколлард) The Hill of Maeve I This is the hill of Maeve, the queen, A mighty bulwark of gray-green Whereon was set, by hands unknown, A rugged monument of stone. The great winds mourn, and sobs the wave Beneath the lichened cairn […]
English Poetry. Clinton Scollard. Muckross. Клинтон Сколлард.
Clinton Scollard (Клинтон Сколлард) Muckross At night there came unto MacCarthy More A hooded vision with a voice that said, “Go thou straightway and raise a house to God Upon the spot where stands the Rock of Song!” So with the golden lifting of the dawn Upsprang the […]
English Poetry. Thomas Love Peacock. The Round Table or, King Arthur’s Feast. Томас Лав Пикок.
Thomas Love Peacock (Томас Лав Пикок) The Round Table or, King Arthur’s Feast King Arthur sat down by the lonely sea-coast, As thin as a lath, and as pale as a ghost: He looked on the east, and the west, and the south, With a tear in his […]
English Poetry. Thomas Love Peacock. The Lady, the Knight, and the Friar. Томас Лав Пикок.
Thomas Love Peacock (Томас Лав Пикок) The Lady, the Knight, and the Friar THE LADY. O cavalier! what dost thou here, Thy tuneful vigils keeping; While the northern star looks cold from far And half the world is sleeping? THE KNIGHT. O lady! here, for […]
English Poetry. Thomas Love Peacock. Quintetto. Томас Лав Пикок.
Thomas Love Peacock (Томас Лав Пикок) Quintetto [To the tune of “Turning, turning, turning, as wheel goes round.”] RECITATIVE. MR. PAPERSTAMP: Jack Horner’s CHRISTMAS PIE my learned nurse Interpreted to mean the public purse. From thence a plum he drew. O happy Horner! Who […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. A Child’s Garden of Verses. 23. The Cow. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон. Детский сад стихов. 23. Наша корова
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) A Child’s Garden of Verses. 23. The Cow The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And […]
English Poetry. Mary Wortley Montagu. Ballad, on a Late Occurrence. Мэри Уортли Монтегю.
Mary Wortley Montagu (Мэри Уортли Монтегю) Ballad, on a Late Occurrence Ungodly papers ev’ry week Poor simple souls persuade That courtiers good for nothing are, Or but for mischief made. But I who know their worthy hearts, Pronounce that we are blind, Who disappoint their honest schemes, Who […]
English Poetry. Mary Wortley Montagu. An Elegy on Mrs. Thompson. Мэри Уортли Монтегю.
Mary Wortley Montagu (Мэри Уортли Монтегю) An Elegy on Mrs. Thompson Unhappy fair, by fatal love betray’d! Must then thy beauties thus untimely fade! And all thy blooming, soft, inspiring charms, Become a prey to Death’s destructive arms! Though short thy day, and transient like the wind, How […]
English Poetry. Emma Lazarus. Phantasies. Эмма Лазарус.
Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Phantasies (After Robert Schumann) I. Evening. Rest, beauty, stillness: not a waif of a cloud From gray-blue east sheer to the yellow west— No film of mist the utmost slopes to shroud. The earth lies grace, by quiet airs caressed, And […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 42. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Hymn 42 The Hosannah; or, Salvation ascribed to Christ Hosannah to king David’s Son, Who reigns on a superior throne; We bless the Prince of heav’nly birth, Who brings salvation down to earth. Let every nation, every age, In this delightful work […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Psalm 13. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Psalm 13 Complaint under temptations of the devil. How long wilt thou conceal thy face? My God, how long delay? When shall I feel those heav’nly rays That chase my fears away? How long shall my poor lab’ring soul Wrestle and toil […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 100. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Hymn 100 If God, at last, my sovereign Judge, Should frown, and bid my soul “Depart!” Lord, when I quit this earthly stage, Where shall I fly but to thy breast? For I have sought no other home; For I have learned no […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Psalm 126. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Psalm 126 The joy of a remarkable conversion; or, Melancholy removed. When God revealed his gracious name, And changed my mournful state, My rapture seemed a pleasing dream, The grace appeared so great. The world beheld the glorious change, And did thy […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 103. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Hymn 103 Christ’s commission. John 3:16,17 Come, happy souls, approach your God With new melodious songs; Come, tender to almighty grace The tribute of your tongues. So strange, so boundless was the love That pitied dying men, The Father sent his […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Psalm 135. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Psalm 135 Praise due to God, not to idols. Awake, ye saints; to praise your King, Your sweetest passions raise, Your pious pleasure, while you sing, Increasing with the praise. Great is the Lord, and works unknown Are his divine employ; But […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 3. Youth and Love. 2. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 3. Youth and Love. 2 To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside. Passing for ever, he fares; and on either hand, Deep in the gardens golden pavilions hide, Nestle in orchard bloom, and […]
English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 151. Исаак Уоттс.
Isaac Watts (Исаак Уоттс) Hymn 151 Prophecy and inspiration. ‘Twas by an order from the Lord The ancient prophets spoke his word; His Spirit did their tongues inspire, And warmed their hearts with heav’nly fire. The works and wonders which they wrought Confirmed the messages they […]
English Poetry. George Moses Horton. Lincoln Is Dead. Джордж Мозес Хортон.
George Moses Horton (Джордж Мозес Хортон) Lincoln Is Dead He is gone, the strong base of the nation, The dove to his covet has fled; Ye heroes lament his privation, For Lincoln is dead. He is gone down, the sun of the Union, Like Phoebus, that sets […]
English Poetry. William Whitehead. The Sweepers. Уильям Уайтхед.
William Whitehead (Уильям Уайтхед) The Sweepers I sing of Sweepers, frequent in thy streets, AUGUSTA, as the flowers which grace the spring, Or branches withering in autumnal shades To form the brooms they wield. Preserv’d by them From dirt, from coach-hire, and th’ oppressive rheums Which clog the […]
English Poetry. William Whitehead. An Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring. Уильям Уайтхед.
William Whitehead (Уильям Уайтхед) An Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring Nymph of the Fount! from whose auspicious Urn Flows health, flows strength, and Beauty’s roseate bloom, Which warms the virgin’s cheek, thy gifts I sing! Whether inclining from thy rocky couch Thou hear’st attentive, or with […]
English Poetry. William Whitehead. To the Same [Charles Townsend], on the Death of a Relation. Уильям Уайтхед.
William Whitehead (Уильям Уайтхед) To the Same [Charles Townsend], on the Death of a Relation O CHARLES, ’tis now the tender, trying time, The hour of friendship, the sad moment when You must awhile indulge a virtuous crime, And hide your own to ease another’s pain, The mournful […]
English Poetry. William Shenstone. Extent of Cookery. Уильям Шенстон.
William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) Extent of Cookery Aliusque et idem. (Another and the same). When Tom to Cambridge first was sent, A plain brown bob he wore; Read much, and look’d as though he meant To be a fop no more. See him to Lincoln’s-Inn repair, […]
English Poetry. William Shenstone. Elegy. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences. Уильям Шенстон.
William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) Elegy. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences To Mr. Graves, 1745. Ah me! what envious magic thins my fold? What mutter’d spell retards their late increase? Such lessening fleeces must the swain behold, That e’er with Doric pipe essays […]
English Poetry. William Shenstone. Elegy. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country. Уильям Шенстон.
William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) Elegy. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country, and Takes Occasion To Expatiate in Praise of Simplicity. To a Friend For rural virtues, and for native skies, I bade Augusta’s venal […]
English Poetry. William Shenstone. Elegy. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance. Уильям Шенстон.
William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) Elegy. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame, Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies; Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim, Lo! here the brave and the puissant lies. When humbler Alcon leaves his […]
English Poetry. William Shenstone. Song (I told my nymph, I told her true). Уильям Шенстон.
William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) Song (I told my nymph, I told her true) I told my nymph, I told her true, My fields were small, my flocks were few, While faltering accents spoke my fear, That Flavia might not prove sincere. Of crops destroyed by vernal cold, […]
English Poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson. At Last She Comes. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон) At Last She Comes AT last she comes, O never more In this dear patience of my pain To leave me lonely as before, Or leave my soul alone again. Robert Louis Stevenson’s other poems: Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 13. […]
English Poetry. William Shenstone. Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue. Уильям Шенстон.
William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue Insensible of soft desire, Behold Colemira prove More partial to the kitchen fire Than to the fire of Love. Night’s sable clouds had half the globe o’erspread, And silence reign’d, and folks were gone to bed; When love, which […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. The Bobolink. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) The Bobolink Your notes are few, But sweet your song As honey-dew; And all day long, Dear Bobolink, a-listening, I never tire to hear you sing. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Honey-Bee The Bee and the Blossoms The Pleiads […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. A Duet. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) A Duet A little yellow Bird above, A little yellow Flower below; The little Bird can _sing_ the love That Bird and Blossom know; The Blossom has no song nor wing, But breathes the love he cannot sing. John Bannister Tabb’s other […]
English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. At Cock-Crow. Джон Банистер Табб.
John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб) At Cock-Crow CROW! For the night has thrice denied The glory of the Sun, And now, repentant, turns aside To weep what he has done. John Bannister Tabb’s other poems: Chimney Stacks The Bobolink The Bee and the Blossoms Butterfly The Honey-Bee […]