English Poetry. Charlotte Turner Smith. Love and Folly. Шарлотта Смит.
Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит) Love and Folly LOVE, who now deals to human hearts, Such ill thrown, yet resistless darts, That hapless mortals can’t withstand them, Was once less cruel and perverse, Nor did he then his shafts disperse, So much at random. It happened, that […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Dream of Resurrection. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Dream of Resurrection SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A lost hope clothes itself alway. The dream showed very plain: the bed Where that known unknown face […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. My Love Annie. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) My Love Annie SOFT of voice and light of hand As the fairest in the land– Who can rightly understand My love Annie? Simple in her thoughts and ways, True in every word she says,– Who shall even dare to praise […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The Path Through the Corn. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The Path Through the Corn WAVY and bright in the summer air, Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair, And its roughest breath has scarcely curled The green highway to a distant world,– Soft whispers passing from shore to shore, […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Day by Day. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Day by Day EVERY day has its dawn, Its soft and silent eve, Its noontide hours of bliss or bale;– Why should we grieve? Why do we heap huge mounds of years Before us and behind, And scorn the little days […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Now and Afterwards. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Now and Afterwards TWO hands upon the breast, And labor’s done; Two pale feet crossed in rest– The race is won; Two eyes with coin-weights shut, And all tears cease; Two lips where grief is mute, Anger at peace’:– So pray we […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Coeur De Lion. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Coeur De Lion I. RICHARD the Lion-hearted, crowned serene With the true royalty of perfect man; Seated in stone above the praise or ban Of these mixed crowds who come gaping lean As if to see what the word ‘king’ might […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Spirit Present. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Spirit Present IF, coming from that unknown sphere Where I believe thou art,– The world unseen which girds our world So close, yet so apart,– Thy soul’s soft call unto my soul Electrical could reach, And mortal and immortal blend In […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Only a Dream. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Only a Dream METHOUGHT I saw thee yesternight Sit by me in the olden guise, The white robes and the pain foregone, Weaving instead of amaranth crown A web of mortal dyes. I cried, ‘Where hast thou been so long?’ (The […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. At Even-Tide. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) At Even-Tide C. N.—Died April, 1857. What spirit is it that doth pervade The silence of this empty room? And as I lift my eyes, what shade Glides off and vanishes in gloom? I could believe this moment gone, A […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Christmas Day. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) Christmas Day A baby is a harmless thing And wins our hearts with one accord, And Flower of Babies was their King, Jesus Christ our Lord: Lily of lilies He Upon His Mother’s knee; Rose of roses, soon to be Crowned with […]
English Poetry. Charlotte Turner Smith. Written near a Port on a Dark Evening. Шарлотта Смит.
Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит) Written near a Port on a Dark Evening Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore, Night on the ocean settles dark and mute, Save where is heard the repercussive roar Of drowsy billows on the rugged foot Of rocks remote; or still more […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Winter Sunset. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Winter Sunset Roses in the sky, Roses in the sea Bowers of scarlet sky-roses Take my heart and me. God was good to make, This December weather, All this sky a rose-garden, Rose and fire together. To the East are burning Roses […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Distraction. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Distraction When swarms of small distractions harry Devotion like the gnats that fly Till prayers are cold and customary, Not such as please Thee, Heaven-high. When I forget for all my striving Thy presence holy and august, Be Thou not angry, but forgiving […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Alienation. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Alienation For the first time since he was born Her son, her rose without a thorn, They are at variance, they who were Always such closest friends and dear. Another face is in his dreams Under the sunbeams and moonbeams. In his changed […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Last Parting. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Last Parting He is not dead. They do not know, Who pity her, her secret ease, How he is near her, how they go, Her hand in his. The last sad parting now is done. She can look back as from afar […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. His Footstep. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) His Footstep To Lady Wemyss The boy will come no more Although I listen and long; The sound of his foot on the floor Was like an old song. His foot had the music in it, And now the music’s dumb – […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Truce of God. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Truce of God After Suvla Now to the stricken doe And the wounded hind There comes the Mercy of God That is cool and kind. To the hapless creature He made He giveth rest. All the woes of the world Lie […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. Woodman, Spare That Tree!. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) * * * Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I’ll protect it now. ‘Twas my forefather’s hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. Land-Ho!. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) Land-Ho! UP, UP WITH THE SIGNAL!—The land is in sight! We’ll be happy, if never again, boys, to-night! The cold cheerless ocean in safety we’ve passed, And the warm genial earth glads our vision at last. In the land of the stranger […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. The Croton Ode. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) The Croton Ode Written at the request of the corporation of the city of New York. Gushing from this living fountain, Music pours a falling strain, As the goddess of the mountain Comes with all her sparkling train. From her […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. Banagher Rhue. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) Banagher Rhue Banagher Rhue of Donegal, (Holy Mary, how slow the dawn!) This is the hour of your loss or gain: Is go d-tigheadh do, mhûirnín slan! Banagher Rhue, but the hour was ill (O Mary Mother, how high the price!) […]
English Poetry. Charlotte Turner Smith. Sonnet 1. The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours. Шарлотта Смит.
Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит) Sonnet 1. The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours THE partial Muse, has from my earliest hours, Smil’d on the rugged path I’m doom’d to tread, And still with sportive hand has snatch’d wild flowers, To weave fantastic garlands for my head: […]
English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. The Rape of the Baron’s Wine. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) The Rape of the Baron’s Wine Who was stealing the Baron’s wine, Golden sherry and port so old, Precious, I wot, as drops of gold? Lone to-night he came to dine, Flung himself in his oaken chair, Kicked the hound that […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Mood. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Mood Bowed hearts that hold the saddest memories Are the most beautiful; and such make sweet Light happy moods of alien natures which Their sadness contacts, and so sanctifies. And such to me is an old, gabled house, Deserted and […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. A Wet Day. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) A Wet Day Dark, drear, and drizzly, with vapor grizzly, The day goes dully unto its close; Its wet robe smutches each thing it touches, Its fingers sully and wreck the rose. Around the railing and garden-paling The dripping lily hangs […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The White Evening. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The White Evening From gray, bleak hills ‘neath steely skies Thro’ beards of ice the forests roar; Along the river’s humming shore The skimming skater bird-like flies. On windy meads where wave white breaks, Where fettered briers’ glist’ning hands Reach to […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Tomboy. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Tomboy There’s a little girl I know And we call her So-and-So. She is neither good nor bad Good enough for me although! Never saw a girl that had More real life in her, or more Of what people christen go; Pretty […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Ribbon. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Ribbon Those were the days of doubt. How clear It all comes back! This ribbon, see? Brings that far past so very near I lose my own identity, And seem two beings: one that’s here, And one back in that century […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. The Dance of Summer. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) The Dance of Summer Summer, gowned in catnip-gray, Goes her weedy wildwood way, Where with rosehip-buttoned coat, Cardinal flower-plume afloat, With the squirrel-folk at play, Brown September, smiling, stands, Chieftain of the Romany bands Of the Fall a gypsy crew, Glimmering in […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Pixy Wood. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Pixy Wood The vat-like cups of the fungus, filled With the rain that fell last night, Are casks of wine that the elves distilled For revels the moon did light. The owlet there with her “Who-oh-who,” And the frog with his […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Kinship. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Kinship I. There is no flower of wood or lea, No April flower, as fair as she: O white anemone, who hast The wind’s wild grace, Know her a cousin of thy race, Into whose face A presence like the wind’s […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Gipsies. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Gipsies I. There’s a scent of pungent wood smoke in the chill October air, And a jack-o’-lantern glare, a wild and dusky glare, ‘Tis the brush that burns and smoulders in the woods and by the ways, The old New England […]
English Poetry. James Elroy Flecker. To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence. Джеймс Элрой Флеккер.
James Elroy Flecker (Джеймс Элрой Флеккер) To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence I who am dead a thousand years, And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers The way I shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas, […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Falerina. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Falerina The night is hung above us, love, With heavy stars that love us, love, With clouds that curl in purple and pearl, And winds that whisper of us, love: On burly hills and valleys, that lie dimmer, The amber foot-falls of […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Dilly Dally. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Dilly Dally I. There is a little girl I know Who takes her time to come and go. If you should ask her please to hurry, She tries her best then to be slow: She gives her parents lots of worry; […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Consecration. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Consecration I. This is the place where visions come to dance, Dreams of the trees and flowers, glimmeringly; Where the white moon and the pale stars can see, Sitting with Legend and with dim Romance. This is the place where all […]
English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Halloween. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Madison Julius Cawein (Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн) Halloween It was down in the woodland on last Hallowe’en, Where silence and darkness had built them a lair, That I felt the dim presence of her, the unseen, And heard her still step on the ghost-haunted air. It was last […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. The Book of Martyrs. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) The Book of Martyrs Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they bore The faithful witness, Till we are helped, As if a kingdom cared! Read then of faith […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Dawn. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Dawn When night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ‘s time to smooth the hair And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care For that old faded midnight That frightened but […]