English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Westward Ho!. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Westward Ho! We should not sit us down and sigh, My girl, whose brow a fane appears, Whose steadfast eyes look royally Backwards and forwards o’er the years– The long, long years of conquered time, The possible years unwon, that slope […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A True Hero. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A True Hero JAMES BRAIDWOOD: Died June 22, 1861. NOT at the battle front,–writ of in story; Not on the blazing wreck steering to glory; Not while in martyr-pangs soul and flesh sever, Died he–this Hero new; hero forever. […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. The Race Of Banquo. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Race Of Banquo Fly, son of Banquo! Fleance, fly! Leave thy guilty sire to die. O’er the heath the stripling fled, The wild storm howling round his head. Fear mightier thro’ the shades of night Urged his feet, and wing’d his flight; And […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Marriage-Table. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Marriage-Table THERE was a marriage-table where One sate, Haply, unnoticed, till they craved His aid: Thenceforward does it seem that He has made All virtuous marriage-tables consecrate: And so, at this, where without pomp or state We sit, and only say, […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Word in Season. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Word in Season “THIS is a day the Lord hath made.”–Thus spake The good religious heart, unstained, unworn, Watching the golden glory of the morn.– Since, on each happy day that came to break Like sunlight o’er this silent life of […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A German Student’s Funeral Hymn. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A German Student’s Funeral Hymn WITH steady march across the daisy meadow, And by the churchyard wall we go; But leave behind, beneath the linden shadow, One, who no more will rise and go: Farewell, our brother, here sleeping in dust, Till […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Child’s Smile. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Child’s Smile A CHILD’S smile–nothing more; Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen; Like summer lightning o’er, Leaving the little face again serene. I think, boy well-beloved, Thine angel, who did grieve to see how far Thy childhood is […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The Unknown Country. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The Unknown Country “WHERE is the unknown country?” I whispered sad and slow,– “The strange and awful country To which I soon must go, must go, To which I soon must go?” Out of the unknown country A voice sang soft […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. A Lancashire Doxology. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) A Lancashire Doxology “PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow.” Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe. The Lord who takes, — the Lord who gives, — O praise Him, all that dies, and lives. He opens and He shuts his […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Mortality. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Mortality “And we shall be changed.””And we shall be changed.” Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey, Pressed each to each in tender fold, And peacefully thus, day by day, Returning to their mould; Brown leaves, that with aerial grace Slip from your […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. The House of Clay. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) The House of Clay THERE was a house, a house of clay, Wherein the inmate sat all day, Merry and poor; For Hope sat with her, heart to heart, Fond and kind, fond and kind, Vowing he never would depart, — […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. “Philip, My King”. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) “Philip, My King” Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my king! Round whom the enshadowing purple lies Of babyhood’s royal dignities. Lay on my neck thy tiny hand With love’s invisible scepter laden; I am thine Esther to command […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Only a Woman. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Only a Woman As grass grows taller round a stone.” Coventry Patmore. SO, the truth’s out. I ‘ll grasp it like a snake, — It will not slay me. My heart shall not break Awhile, if only for the […]
English Poetry. Robert Southey. Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin. Роберт Саути.
Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin Poussin! most pleasantly thy pictur’d scenes Beguile the lonely hour; I sit and gaze With lingering eye, till charmed FANCY makes The lovely landscape live, and the rapt soul From the foul haunts of herded humankind Flies […]
English Poetry. Dinah Maria Craik. Green Things Growing. Дина Мария Крейк.
Dinah Maria Craik (Дина Мария Крейк) Green Things Growing O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing. […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Dedication. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Dedication My body having encountered with a soul, Be it my body’s care to cherish whole The thing it holds in trust, nor once deny Ears to receive its faintest ghostly cry, Nor count the large advantage of the hour Aught in the scale […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. New Light. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) New Light What light was in me once unguarded was And any wind could blow it any way, A flame in tatters, with all moods for laws, Wildest at midnight, pallidest by day. A fire too tossed for comfort to the cold, A […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. The Last Week in September. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) The Last Week in September CHILD’S VISION I saw a man, an old, old man, The oldest man I ever did see– Well! I am very nearly five, And he was twice as old as me. His eyes were much too old […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. My Knowledge Is–. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) My Knowledge Is– My knowledge is, that I am one That never will behold the sun, But only on his image look As a veiled thing that scarcely stirs Under the silent pool-waters, Or tossed beneath a restless brook, Blurred light from blinding glory […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Silence. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Silence Words and the body always have been much pain to me, Little fetters and drags on immensities Never to be defined. I am done with these. Meanings of silence suddenly all grow plain to me. Something still may sing like a joyous […]
English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Revolt. Элинор Фарджон.
Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон) Revolt I will go riding, riding! away from the cities of men! Into the heart of freedom I will hurl myself with the free! I will race on the sun-swept mountains, I will dive through the rock-hewn glen, I will cleave between hills billowing […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Flower of Youth. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Flower of Youth LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary, God, who made boys for His delight, Stoops in a day of grief and glory And calls them in, in from the night. When they come trooping from the war Our skies have many […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. A Hero. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) A Hero He was so foolish, the poor lad, He made superior people smile Who knew not of the wings he had Budding and growing all the while; Nor that the laurel wreath was made Already for his curly head. Silly and childish […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. Turn o’ the Year. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Turn o’ the Year This is the time when bit by bit The days begin to lengthen sweet And every minute gained is joy - And love stirs in the heart of a boy. This is the time the sun, of late Content […]
English Poetry. Arthur William Symons. Magnificat. Артур Саймонс (Симонс).
Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) Magnificat Praise God, who wrought for you and me Your subtle body made for love; God, who from all eternity Willed our divided ways should move Together, and our love should be. I wandered all these years among A world of […]
English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. The Old Soldier. Кэтрин Тайнен.
Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) The Old Soldier Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven, God bids the old soldier they all adored Come to Him and wait for them, clean, new-shriven, A happy doorkeeper in the House of the Lord. Lest it abash them, the strange […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. To Poets. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) To Poets We are the homeless, even as you, Who hope and never can begin. Our hearts are wounded through and through Like yours, but our hearts bleed within. We too make music, but our tones ‘Scape not the barrier of our bones. […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. Peer Gynt. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Peer Gynt When he was young and beautiful and bold We hated him, for he was very strong. But when he came back home again, quite old, And wounded too, we could not hate him long. For kingliness and conquest pranced he […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. Brand. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Brand Thou trod’st the shifting sand path where man’s race is. The print of thy soft sandals is still clear. I too have trodden it those prints a-near, But the sea washes out my tired foot-traces. And all that thou hast healed and […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. German Rain. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) German Rain The heat came down and sapped away my powers. The laden heat came down and drowned my brain, Till through the weight of overcoming hours I felt the rain. Then suddenly I saw what more to see I never thought: […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. Rooks (There is such cry in all these birds). Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) Rooks (There is such cry in all these birds) There is such cry in all these birds, More than can ever be express’d; If I should put it into words, You would agree it were not best To wake such wonder […]
English Poetry. Charles Hamilton Sorley. The Seekers. Чарльз Сорли.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли) The Seekers The gates are open on the road That leads to beauty and to God. Perhaps the gates are not so fair, Nor quite so bright as once they were, When God Himself on earth did stand And gave to Abraham […]
English Poetry. George Pope Morris. The Deserted Bride. Джордж Поуп Моррис.
George Pope Morris (Джордж Поуп Моррис) The Deserted Bride Suggested by a scene in the play of the hunchback. Inscribed to James Sheridan Knowles. “Love me!—No.—He never loved me!” Else he’d sooner die than stain One so fond as he has proved me With the hollow […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Nightmare, and the Next Thing. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Nightmare, and the Next Thing On this decline of Christmas Day The empty street is fogged and blurred: The house-fronts all seem backwise turned As if the outer world were spurned: Voices and songs within are heard, Whence red rays gleam when […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Poet’s Thought. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Poet’s Thought It sprang up out of him in the dark, And took on the lightness of a lark: It went from his chamber along the city strand, Lingered awhile, then leapt all over the land. It came back maimed and […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. From Sunset to Star Rise. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) From Sunset to Star Rise Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not: I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, A silly sheep benighted from the fold, A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot. Take counsel, sever from my lot your […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. A Countenance. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) A Countenance Her laugh was not in the middle of her face quite, As a gay laugh springs, It was plain she was anxious about some things I could not trace quite. Her curls were like fir-cones – piled up, brown – Or […]
English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Childhood Among the Ferns. Томас Гарди (Харди).
Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Childhood Among the Ferns I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea, Where tall-stemmed ferns spread out luxuriantly, And nothing but those tall ferns sheltered me. The rain gained strength, and damped each lopping frond, Ran down their stalks beside me and […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. Stoves and Sunshine. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) Stoves and Sunshine Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea— The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough for me! I’ve done the grand for fourteen months in every foreign clime, And I’ve learned a heap of learning, […]
English Poetry. Eugene Field. My Playmates. Юджин Филд.
Eugene Field (Юджин Филд) My Playmates The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool— Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool; It brings me soothing fancies of the homestead on the hill, And I hear the thrush’s evening song and the robin’s morning […]