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Wystan Hugh Auden «Lullaby»

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Стихотворение «Колыбельная» Уистена Хью Одена (Wystan Hugh Auden) — англо-американского поэта, оказавшего значительное влияние на литературу XX-го века, на английском и русском языках. Lullaby Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creatures lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful. Soul and beauty have no bounds: To lovers as they lie upon Her tolerant enchanted slope In their ordinary swoon, Grave the vision Venus sends Of supernatural … Читать далее →

Wystan Hugh Auden «Refugee Blues»

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Стихотворение англо-американского поэта Уистена Хью Одена (1907-1973) «Блюз для беженцев» на английском и русском языках. Refugee Blues Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us. Once we had a country and we thought it fair, Look in the atlas and you’ll find it there: We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now. In the village churchyard there grows an old yew, Every spring it blossoms anew: Old passports can’t do that, my dear, … Читать далее →