English Poetry. Arthur William Symons. At Burgos. Артур Саймонс (Симонс).
Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) At Burgos Miraculous silver-work in stone Against the blue miraculous skies, The belfry towers and turrets rise Out of the arches that enthrone That airy wonder of the skies. Softly against the burning sun The great cathedral spreads its wings; High […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Bouche-Mignonne. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) Bouche-Mignonne BOUCHE-MIGNONNE lived in the mill, Past the vineyards shady, Where the sun shone on a rill Jewelled like a lady. Proud the stream with lily-bud, Gay with glancing swallow; Swift its trillion-footed flood Winding ways to follow; Coy and […]
English Poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford. The Canoe. Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Изабелла Валанси Кроуфорд) The Canoe My masters twain made me a bed Of pine-boughs resinous, and cedar; Of moss, a soft and gentle breeder Of dreams of rest; and me they spread With furry skins, and laughing said, “Now she shall lay her polish’d sides, […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. The Buoy-Bell. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) The Buoy-Bell HOW like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing its own solitude, it tolls! That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals, To warn us from the place of jeopardy! O friend of man! sore vexed by Ocean’s power, […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Our Mary and the Child Mummy. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Our Mary and the Child Mummy WHEN the four quarters of the globe shall rise,— Men, women, children, at the judgment-time,— Perchance this Memphian girl, dead ere her prime, Shall drop her mask, and with dark, new-born eyes Salute our English Mary, […]
English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. Her First-Born. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.
Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер) Her First-Born IT was her first sweet child, her heart’s delight; And though we all foresaw his early doom, We kept the fearful secret out of sight; We saw the canker, but she kissed the bloom. And yet it might not be: […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Rouge et Noir. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Rouge et Noir Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won an all. Angels’ breathless ballot Lingers to record thee; Imps in eager caucus Raffle for my soul. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson’s other […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Our Share of Night to Bear. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * Our share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning. Here a star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards […]
English Poetry. Thomas Heywood. The Woodcock and the Daw. Томас Хейвуд.
Thomas Heywood (Томас Хейвуд) The Woodcock and the Daw A WOODCOCK and a Daw sat upon a plain, Both showed comparison each other to disdain. “Back!” (quoth the Woodcock). “Straw for thee!” (quoth the Daw); “Shall woodcocks keep daws now in dreadful awe?” “None awe,” (quoth the Woodcock), […]
English Poetry. Thomas Heywood. Shepherd’s Song. Томас Хейвуд.
Thomas Heywood (Томас Хейвуд) Shepherd’s Song We that have known no greater state Than this we live in, praise our fate; For courtly silks in cares are spent, When country’s russet breeds content. The power of sceptres we admire, But sheep-hooks for our use desire. Simple and low […]
English Poetry. Thomas Heywood. Psyche. Томас Хейвуд.
Thomas Heywood (Томас Хейвуд) Psyche But Psyche lives, and on her breath attend Delights that far surmount all earthly joy; Music, sweet voices, and ambrosian fare; Winds, and the light-winged creatures of the air; Clear channeled rivers, springs, and flowery meads, Are proud when Psyche wantons on their […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. Night And Sleep. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) Night And Sleep How strange at night to wake And watch, while others sleep, Till sight and hearing ache For objects that may keep The awful inner sense Unroused, lest it should mark The life that haunts the emptiness And horror of the […]
English Poetry. George Henry Borrow. Glee. Джордж Генри Борроу.
George Henry Borrow (Джордж Генри Борроу) Glee Roseate colours on heaven’s high arch Are beginning to mix with the blue and the gray, Sol now commences his wonderful march, And the forests’ wing’d denizens sing from the spray. Gaily the rose Is seen to unclose Each of her […]
English Poetry. George Henry Borrow. Youthful Maidens. Джордж Генри Борроу.
George Henry Borrow (Джордж Генри Борроу) Youthful Maidens Love, with rosy fetter, Held us firmly bound; Pure unmix’d enjoyment Grateful here we found. Bosom, bosom meeting, ‘Gainst our youths we press’d; Bright the moon arose, then, Glad to see us blest. Denmark’s honour beckon’d, Loud the canon […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. King Raedwald. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) King Raedwald Will you hear now the speech of King Raedwald,—heathen Raedwald, the simple yet wise? He, the ruler of North-folk and South-folk, a man open-browed as the skies, Held the eyes of the eager Italians with his blue, bold, Englishman’s eyes. […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Departed Friends. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Departed Friends The dead friends live and always will; Their presence hovers round us still. It seems to me they come to share Each joy or sorrow that we bear. Among the living I can feel The sweet departed spirits steal, And […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. The Few. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) The Few The easy roads are crowded And the level roads are jammed; The pleasant little rivers With the drifting folks are crammed. But off yonder where it’s rocky, Where you get a better view, You will find the ranks are thinning […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Vacation Time. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Vacation Time Vacation time! How glad it seemed When as a boy I sat and dreamed Above my school books, of the fun That I should claim when toil was done; And, Oh, how oft my youthful eye Went wandering with the […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Songs of Rejoicing. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Songs of Rejoicing Songs of rejoicin’, Of love and of cheer, Are the songs that I’m yearnin’ for Year after year. The songs about children Who laugh in their glee Are the songs worth the singin’, The bright songs for me. Songs […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Mother. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Mother Never a sigh for the cares that she bore for me Never a thought of the joys that flew by; Her one regret that she couldn’t do more for me, Thoughtless and selfish, her Master was I. Oh, the long […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. Bud. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) Bud Who is it lives to the full every minute, Gets all the joy and the fun that is in it? Tough as they make ’em, and ready to race, Fit for a battle and fit for a chase, Heedless of buttons […]
English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. The Return of the Year. Арчибальд Лемпман.
Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман) The Return of the Year Again the warm bare earth, the noon That hangs upon her healing scars, The midnight round, the great red moon, The mother with her brood of stars, The mist-rack and the wakening rain Blown soft in many a […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. A London Fête. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) A London Fête All night fell hammers, shock on shock; With echoes Newgate’s granite clang’d: The scaffold built, at eight o’clock They brought the man out to be hang’d. Then came from all the people there A single cry, that shook the air; […]
English Poetry. Archibald Lampman. Forest Moods. Арчибальд Лемпман.
Archibald Lampman (Арчибальд Лемпман) Forest Moods There is singing of birds in the deep wet woods, In the heart of the listening solitudes, Pewees, and thrushes, and sparrows, not few, And all the notes of their throats are true. The thrush from the innermost ash takes on […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. With a Flower. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) With a Flower I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too — And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Resurrection. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Resurrection ‘T was a long parting, but the time For interview had come; Before the judgment-seat of God, The last and second time These fleshless lovers met, A heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another’s eyes. […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Love’s Baptism. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Love’s Baptism I’m ceded, I’ve stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools I’ve finished threading […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. In Vain. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) In Vain I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf The sexton keeps the key to, Putting up Our life, his porcelain, Like a cup Discarded of the housewife, Quaint […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Bequest. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) Bequest You left me, sweet, two legacies, — A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. Emily […]
English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Dare You See a Soul. Эмили Дикинсон.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон) * * * Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door — Red — is the Fire’s common tint — But when the vivid Ore Has vanquished Flame’s conditions, It quivers from the Forge Without a color, […]
English Poetry. Eva Gore-Booth. Secret Waters. Эва Гор-Бут.
Eva Gore-Booth (Эва Гор-Бут) Secret Waters Lo, in my soul there lies a hidden lake, High in the mountains, fed by rain and snow, The sudden thundering avalanche divine, And the bright waters’ everlasting flow, Far from the highways’ dusty glare and heat. Dearer it is and holier, […]
English Poetry. Eva Gore-Booth. The Dreamer. Эва Гор-Бут.
Eva Gore-Booth (Эва Гор-Бут) The Dreamer All night I stumble through the fields of light, And chase in dreams the starry rays divine That shine through soft folds of the robe of night, Hung like a curtain round a sacred shrine. When daylight dawns I leave the […]
English Poetry. George Henry Borrow. The Old Oak. Джордж Генри Борроу.
George Henry Borrow (Джордж Генри Борроу) The Old Oak Here have I stood, the pride of the park, In winter with snow on my frozen bark; In spring ‘mong the flowers that smiling she spread, And among my own leaves when summer was fled. Three hundred years my […]
English Poetry. Coventry Patmore. The Year. Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор).
Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) The Year The crocus, while the days are dark, Unfolds its saffron sheen; At April’s touch the crudest bark Discovers gems of green. Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod And rounds the peach, and in the […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. I Hear the Stars still Singing. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) * * * I hear the stars still singing To the beautiful, silent night, As they speed with noiseless winging Their ever westward flight. I hear the waves still falling On the stretch of lonely shore, But the sound of a sweet […]
English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.
James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон) * * * The glory of the day was in her face, The beauty of the night was in her eyes. And over all her loveliness, the grace Of Morning blushing in the early skies. And in her voice, the calling […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. The Going out of the Tide. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) The Going out of the Tide The eastern heaven was all faint amethyst, Whereon the moon hung dreaming in the mist; To north yet drifted one long delicate plume Of roseate cloud; like snow the ocean-spume. Now when the first foreboding […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. Arraignment. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) Arraignment “Not ye who have stoned, not ye who have smitten us,” cry The sad, great souls, as they go out hence into dark, “Not ye we accuse, though for you was our passion borne; And ye we reproach not, who silently […]
English Poetry. Helen Gray Cone. Silence. Хелен Грей Коун.
Helen Gray Cone (Хелен Грей Коун) Silence Why should I sing of earth or heaven? not rather rest, Powerless to speak of that which hath my soul possessed,— For full possession dumb? Yea, Silence, that were best. And though for what it failed to sound I brake […]
English Poetry. Edgar Albert Guest. It Couldn’t Be Done. Эдгар Альберт Гест.
Edgar Albert Guest (Эдгар Альберт Гест) It Couldn’t Be Done Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of […]