„Invictus” de William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. Din bezna fără de hotar Ce mă-mpresoară pe pământ, Eu, căror zei or …
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„Departure” de Coventry Patmore
IT was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my Love, repent Of how, that July afternoon, You went, With sudden, unintelligible phrase, And frighten'd eye, Upon your journey …
„The Prodigal Son” de Rudyard Kipling
Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again And cheered by flesh of my flesh. The fatted calf is dressed for me, But the husks have greater …
„Ode to the West Wind” de Percy Bysshe Shelley
I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, I O, vânt de-apus, suflare-a Toamnei crunte, De care fug – cum …
„Keith of Ravelston” de Sydney Thompson Dobell
The murmur of the mourning ghost That keeps the shadowy kine, 'O Keith of Ravelston, The sorrows of thy line!' Aşa se tânguia fantasma Care năluci de vaci păzea: „O, Keith din Ravelston, mi-a fost Osânda stirpei tale, …
„Up-Hill” de Christina Rossetti
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. Au calea tot în sus va năzui? – Da, până …
„Autumn” de Thomas Hood
The autumn skies are flushed with gold, And fair and bright the rivers run; These are but streams of winter cold, And painted mists that quench the sun. De aur ud e-al Toamnei cer, Şi aleargă gârle lucitoare; …
„October” de William Morris
O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented haze That hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold, Where the wind-bitten ancient elms infold Grey …
„Rest” de Christina Rossetti
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she …
„Harp Song of the Dane Women” de Rudyard Kipling
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker? De ce părăsiţi voi pe doamnele dane, Şi vatra şi-ograda de două pogoane, Spre-a merge cu Baba-ce-face-vădane? …
„A Pict Song” de Rudyard Kipling
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads; And Rome never heeds when we bawl. Her sentries pass on—that is all, And we gather behind them in …
„A Forsaken Garden” de Algernon Charles Swinburne
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea. A girdle of brushwood …
„Remember” de Christina Rossetti
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more …
„Prologue of the Earthly Paradise” de William Morris
Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make quick-coming death a little thing, Or bring again the pleasure of past years, Nor for my words shall …
„The Battle of Blenheim” de Robert Southey
It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. Amurg de vară – sfârşise O …
„Lucifer in Starlight” de George Meredith
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose. Prin aştri, noaptea, Lucifer suia. Scârbit de schiptru-i, …
„Disillusioned” de Lewis Carroll
I painted her a gushing thing, With years about a score; I little thought to find they were At least a dozen more; My fancy gave her eyes of blue, A curly auburn head: I came to find …
„Modern Love” de George Meredith
'I play for Seasons; not Eternities!' Says Nature, laughing on her way. 'So must All those whose stake is nothing more than dust!' And lo, she wins, and of her harmonies She is full sure! Upon her dying …
„Love and Age” de Thomas Love Peacock
I Play'd with you 'mid cowslips blowing, When I was six and you were four; When garlands weaving, flower-balls throwing, Were pleasures soon to please no more. Through groves and meads, o'er grass and heather, With little playmates, …
„Echo” de Christina Rossetti
Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, …