Шуточное стихотворение, предполагаемый монолог сестры поэта. Звукозапись стихотворения на английском языке:   Стихотворение Редьярда Киплинга «Моя соперница» на английском языке и в трёх переводах на русский язык My Rival Моя соперница I go to concert, party, ball — What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive to look at ease. The incense that is mine by right They burn before her shrine; And that’s because I’m seventeen And She is forty-nine. I cannot check my girlish blush, My color comes and goes; I redden to my finger-tips, And sometimes to my nose. But She is … Читать далее →

Звукозапись стихотворения на английском языке   Стихотворение Редьярда Киплинга «Объяснение» (стилизация под индийские притчи) на английском и русском языках. The Explanation Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man’s Life. Called for wine, and threw — alas! — Each his quiver on the grass. When the bout was o’er they found Mingled arrows strewed the ground. Hastily they gathered then Each the loves and lives of men. Ah, the fateful dawn deceived! Mingled arrows each one sheaved; Death’s dread armoury was stored With the shafts he most abhorred; Love’s light quiver groaned beneath Venom-headed darts of … Читать далее →