Стихи англоязычных поэтов с переводом на русский язык

Edward Lear «How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear»

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Стихотворение английского поэта Эдварда Лира (1812—1888) «Как мило знать Мистера Лира!» на английском языке и в трёх переводах на русский язык. How pleasant ot know Mr.Lear! «How pleasant ot know Mr.Lear!» Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough. His mind is concrete and fastidious, His nose is remarkably big; His visage is more or less hideous, His beard it resembles a wig. He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers, Leastways if you reckon two thumbs; Long ago he was one of the singers, But now … Читать далее →

Sylvia Plath «Burning The Letters»

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Стихотворение американской поэтессы Сильвии Плат (англ. Sylvia Plath, 1932–1963) «Сожжение писем» на английском языке и в трёх переводах на русский язык. Burning The Letters I made a fire; being tired Of the white fists of old Letters and their death rattle When I came too close to the wastebasket What did they know that I didn’t? Grain by grain, they unrolled Sands where a dream of clear water Grinned like a getaway car. I am not subtle Love, love, and well, I was tired Of cardboard cartons the color of cement or a dog pack Holding in it’s hate Dully, … Читать далее →

Kathleen Raine «Spell of sleep»

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Spell of sleep Let him be safe in sleep As leaves folded together As young birds under wings As the unopened flower. Let him be hidden in sleep As islands under rain, As mountains within their clouds, As hills in the mantle of dusk. Let him be free in sleep As the flowing tides of the sea, As the traveling wind on the moor, As the journeying stars in space. Let him be upheld in sleep As a cloud at rest on the air, As sea-wrack under the waves When the flowing tide covers all And the shells’ delicate lives … Читать далее →

William Ernest Henley «Ballade Of Youth And Age»

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«Баллада о Молодости и Старости» английского поэта Уильяма Эрнеста Хенли (1849–1903) на английском языке с переводом на русский язык. Ballade Of Youth And Age Spring at her height on a morn at prime, Sails that laugh from a flying squall, Pomp of harmony, rapture of rhyme — Youth is the sign of them, one and all. Winter sunsets and leaves that fall, An empty flagon, a folded page, A tumble-down wheel, a tattered ball — These are a type of the world of Age. Bells that clash in a gaudy chime, Swords that clatter in onsets tall, The words that … Читать далее →

Ted Hughes «September»

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September We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: No clock counts this. When kisses are repeated and the arms hold There is no telling where time is. It is midsummer: the leaves hang big and still: Behind the eye a star, Under the silk of the wrist a sea, tell Time is nowhere. We stand; leaves have not timed the summer. No clock now needs Tell we have only what we remember: Minutes uproaring with our heads Like an unfortunate King’s and his Queen’s When the senseless mob rules; And quietly the trees casting their crowns Into the pools. … Читать далее →

Wystan Hugh Auden «Rimbaud»

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Стихотворение англоязычного поэта Уистена Хью Одена (1907-1973) «Рембо» на английском и русском языках. Rimbaud The nights, the railway-arches, the bad sky, His horrible companions did not know it; But in that child the rhetorician’s lie Burst like a pipe: the cold had made a poet. Drinks bought him by his weak and lyric friend His senses systematically deranged, To all accustomed nonsense put an end; Till he from lyre and weakness was estranged. Verse was a special illness of the ear; Integrity was not enough; that seemed The hell of childhood: he must try again. Now, galloping through Africa, he … Читать далее →

Edna St. Vincent Millay «Indifference»

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Стихотворение американской поэтессы Эдны Сент-Винсент Миллей (1892—1950) «Равнодушие» на английском и русском языках. Indifference I SAID,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,— “I’ll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed; But I’ll never leave my pillow, though there be some As would let him in—and take him in with tears!” I said. I lay,—for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn,— I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep; And he found me at my window with my big cloak on, All sorry with … Читать далее →