English Poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley. To… (Yet Look On Me). Перси Биши Шелли. К… (Гляди, гляди)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Перси Биши Шелли) To… (Yet Look On Me) Yet look on me — take not thine eyes away, Which feed upon the love within mine own, Which is indeed but the reflected ray Of thine own beauty from my spirit thrown. Yet speak to me […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 3. 24. “A Night of Stars and Dreams”. Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 3. 24. “A Night of Stars and Dreams” A night of stars and dreams, of dreams and sleep; A waking into another empty day— But not unlovely all, for then I say: “To-morrow!” Through the […]
English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 3. 23. Song (My love grew with the growing night). Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.
Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер) The New Day. Part 3. 23. Song (My love grew with the growing night) My love grew with the growing night, And dawned with the new daylight. Richard Watson Gilder’s other poems: The New Day. Part 3. 30. The Sower The New […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Love Dislikes Nothing. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Love Dislikes Nothing Whatsoever thing I see, Rich or poor although it be, —’Tis a mistress unto me. Be my girl or fair or brown, Does she smile, or does she frown; Still I write a sweet-heart down. Be she rough, […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. The Transfiguration. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) The Transfiguration Immortal clothing I put on So soon as, Julia, I am gone To mine eternal mansion. Thou, thou art here, to human sight Clothed all with incorrupted light; —But yet how more admir’dly bright Wilt thou appear, when thou […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. His Last Request to Julia. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) His Last Request to Julia I have been wanton, and too bold, I fear, To chafe o’er-much the virgin’s cheek or ear;— Beg for my pardon, Julia! he doth win Grace with the gods who’s sorry for his sin. That done, my Julia, […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. His Sailing from Julia. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) His Sailing from Julia When that day comes, whose evening says I’m gone Unto that watery desolation; Devoutly to thy Closet-gods then pray, That my wing’d ship may meet no Remora. Those deities which circum-walk the seas, And look upon our dreadful passages, […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. His Covenant or Protestation to Julia. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) His Covenant or Protestation to Julia Why dost thou wound and break my heart, As if we should for ever part? Hast thou not heard an oath from me, After a day, or two, or three, I would come back and live with […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. The Night Piece: to Julia. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) The Night Piece: to Julia Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will-o’th’-Wisp mis-light thee, Nor snake or slow-worm bite thee; But […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Upon Julia’s Voice. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Upon Julia’s Voice When I thy singing next shall hear, I’ll wish I might turn all to ear, To drink-in notes and numbers, such As blessed souls can’t hear too much Then melted down, there let me lie Entranced, and lost confusedly; And […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Upon Roses. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Upon Roses Under a lawn, than skies more clear, Some ruffled Roses nestling were, And snugging there, they seem’d to lie As in a flowery nunnery; They blush’d, and look’d more fresh than flowers Quickened of late by pearly showers; And all, because […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Baby Lies So Fast Asleep. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) * * * Baby lies so fast asleep That we cannot wake her: Will the angels clad in white Fly from heaven to take her? Baby lies so fast asleep That no pain can grieve her; Put a snowdrop in her hand, […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. The Captive Bee; or, the Little Filcher. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) The Captive Bee; or, the Little Filcher As Julia once a-slumb’ring lay, It chanced a bee did fly that way, After a dew, or dew-like shower, To tipple freely in a flower; For some rich flower, he took the lip Of Julia, and […]
English Poetry. Robert Herrick. Upon Julia’s Hair Filled with Dew. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).
Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Upon Julia’s Hair Filled with Dew Dew sate on Julia’s hair, And spangled too, Like leaves that laden are With trembling dew; Or glitter’d to my sight, As when the beams Have their reflected light Danced by the streams. Robert Herrick’s other poems: […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. Beyond Knowledge. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) Beyond Knowledge “Your sins … shall be white as snow.” Into the rescued world newcomer, The newly-dead stepped up, and cried, “O what is that, sweeter than summer Was to my heart before I died? Sir (to an angel), what is yonder More […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. Christ in the Universe. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) Christ in the Universe With this ambiguous earth His dealings have been told us. These abide: The signal to a maid, the human birth, The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all The innumerable host of stars has […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Unexpected Peril. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Unexpected Peril Unlike the youth that all men say They prize—youth of abounding blood, In love with the sufficient day, And gay in growth, and strong in bud; Unlike was mine! Then my first slumber Nightly rehearsed my last; each breath Knew […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. To the Body. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) To the Body Thou inmost, ultimate Council of judgment, palace of decrees, Where the high senses hold their spiritual state, Sued by earth’s embassies, And sign, approve, accept, conceive, create; Create—thy senses close With the world’s pleas. The random odours reach Their sweetness […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Launch. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Launch Forth, to the alien gravity, Forth, to the laws of ocean, we Builders on earth by laws of land Entrust this creature of our hand Upon the calculated sea. Fast bound to shore we cling, we creep, And make our ship […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The Courts. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The Courts A FIGURE OF THE EPIPHANY The poet’s imageries are noble ways, Approaches to a plot, an open shrine. Their splendours, colours, avenues, arrays, Their courts that run with wine; Beautiful similes, “fair and flagrant things,” Enriched, enamouring,—raptures, metaphors Enhancing life, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. The First Snow. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) The First Snow Not yet was winter come to earth’s soft floor, The tideless wave, the warm white road, the shore, The serried town whose small street tortuously Led darkling to the dazzling sea. Not yet to breathing man, not to his song, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. Maternity. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) Maternity One wept whose only child was dead, New-born, ten years ago. “Weep not; he is in bliss,” they said. She answered, “Even so, “Ten years ago was born in pain A child, not now forlorn. But oh, ten years ago, in vain, […]
English Poetry. Alice Meynell. In Manchester Square. Элис Мейнелл.
Alice Meynell (Элис Мейнелл) In Manchester Square (In Memoriam T.H.) The paralytic man has dropped in death The crossing-sweeper’s brush to which he clung, One-handed, twisted, dwarfed, scanted of breath, Although his hair was young. I saw this year the winter vines of France, Dwarfed, twisted, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Battle Hymn of the Women. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Battle Hymn of the Women They are waking, they are waking, In the east, and in the west; They are throwing wide their windows to the sun; And they see the dawn is breaking, And they quiver with unrest, For they know their […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Barbarous Chief. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Barbarous Chief There was a kingdom known as the Mind, A kingdom vast as fair, And the brave king, Brain, had the right to reign, In royal splendor there. Oh! that was a beautiful, beautiful land, Which unto this king was given; […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain). Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) The Awakening (I love the tropics, where sun and rain) I love the tropics, where sun and rain Go forth together, a joyous train To hold up the green, gay side of the world, And to keep earth’s banners of bloom unfurled. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Awakened!. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Awakened! Slowly the People waken; they have been, Like weary soldiers, sleeping in their tents, While traitors tiptoed through the silent camp Intent on plunder. Suddenly a sound– A careless movement of too bold a thief– Starts one dull sleeper; then another stirs, […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. At the Fork of the Road. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) At the Fork of the Road At the fork of the road the turrets rise Of the Half-way House to Paradise; At the end of the path where we meet our dead, And we rest there a while ere we forge ahead. […]
English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. At the Boro Boedoer. Элла Уилкокс.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) At the Boro Boedoer Watching the dawn upon its turrets break (New beauties leaping to each ray of light), Methought I heard Christ calling (as one might Call to an older brother): “Buddha, wake! Come toil with me. From thy calm eyelids shake […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. A Dream of November. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) A Dream of November Far, far away, I know not where, I know not how, The skies are grey, the boughs are bare, bare boughs in flower: Long lilac silk is softly drawn from bough to bough, With flowers of milk and buds […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. Alere Flammam. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) Alere Flammam To A. C. B. In ancient Rome, the secret fire,— An intimate and holy thing,— Was guarded by a tender choir Of kindred maidens in a ring; Deep, deep within the house it lay, No stranger ever gazed thereon, But, […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. To a Child. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) To a Child E. T. G. Thou hast the colors of the spring, The gold of kingcups triumphing, The blue of wood-bells wild; But winter thoughts thy spirit fill, And thou art wandering from us still, Too young to be our child. […]
English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Dream Land. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти) Dream Land Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot. She left the rosy […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. The Mænad’s Grave. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) The Mænad’s Grave The girl who once, on Lydian heights, Around the sacred grove of pines, Would dance through whole tempestuous nights Where no moon shines, Whose pipe of lotos featly blown Gave airs as shrill as Cotys’ own, Who, crowned with […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. Greece and England. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) Greece and England Would this sunshine be completer, Or these violets smell sweeter, Or the birds sing more in metre, If it all were years ago, When the melted mountain-snow Heard in Enna all the woe Of the poor forlorn […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. The Bath. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) The Bath With rosy palms against her bosom pressed, To stay the shudder that she dreads of old, Lysidice glides down, till silver-cold The water girdles half her glowing breast: A yellow butterfly in flowery quest Rifles the roses that her tresses hold: […]
English Poetry. Edmund William Gosse. At the Play. Эдмунд Госс.
Edmund William Gosse (Эдмунд Госс) At the Play Dora seated at the play Weeps to see the hero perish, — Hero of a Dresden day, Fit for china nymphs to cherish; O that Dora’s heart would be Half so soft and warm for me! When the […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Almost!. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Almost! Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago. Emily Elizabeth […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Glee! The Great Storm Is Over!. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * Glee! The great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls, — Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! […]