Isaac Rosenberg

You are so light and gay,
So slight, sweet maid-
Your limbs like leaves in play,
Or beams that grasses braid:…

Тревожь беспечный полдень
Своей тоскою или
Веселою улыбкой,
Зане твой дух мятежный…

Сверкающие голые тела,
Вопящие в зловещем ликованье.
Скалящиеся лица друзей
И сумбурные взмахи рук…

We curl into your eyes-
They drink our files and have never drained :
In the fierce forest of your hair
Our desires beat blindly for their treasure.In your eyes' subtle pit,…

"Here are houses," he moaned,
"I could reach, but my brain swims."
Then they thundered and flashed,
And shook the earth to its rims."They are gunpits," he gasped,…

The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And the rusty stakes like sceptres old To stay the flood of brutish men Upon our brothers dear. The wheels lurched over…

She stood-a hill-ensceptred Queen,
The glory streaming from her ;
While Heaven flashed her rays between,
And shed eternal summer.The gates of morning opened wide…

Streaked with immortal blasphemies,
Betwixt His twin eternities
The Shaper of mortal destinies
Sits in that limbo of dreamless sleep,…

Fret the nonchalant noon
With your spleen
Or your gay brow,
For the motion of your spirit…

Снег – белое таинственное слово.
Не просит лед, не требует мороз
Живой бутон или птенца живого
По стоимости зимних бурь и гроз.Но все же лед, мороз и снег весенний…

Snow is a strange white word.
No ice or
Has asked of bud or
For Winter's cost.

Я – еврей – возник из чресл Моисея,
Что зажег светильником в своей крови
Десять твердых правил – лунное сиянье
Для людей, лишенных праведного света.И все люди, хоть и с кожей разноцветной,…

Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs,
Their naked dances with man's spirit naked
By the root side of the tree of life
(The under side of things…

The free fair life that has never been mine, the glory that might have been,
If I were what you seem to be and what I may not be !
I know I walk upon the earth, but a dreadful wall between
My spirit and your spirit lies, your joy and my misery.The angels that lie watching us, the little human play,…

What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart’s dear granary?
The much we shall miss?Three lives hath one life –…

IN THE WORKSHOPIDim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces,
Faces speechful, barren of soul and sordid,
Huddled and chewing a jest, lewd and gabbled insidious:
Laughter, born of its dung, flashes and floods like sunlight,…

Через эти пасмурные дни
Лики потемневшие горят
Из тысячелетней глубины,
Огненный отбрасывая взгляд.А вдали, карабкаясь на склон,…

Мрак осыпается, будто песок.
Древнее время друидов – сплошь волшебство.
Вот и на руку мою совершает прыжок
Странная крыса – веселое существо,…

Your 'Youth' has fallen from its shelf,
And you have fallen, you yourself.
They knocked a soldier on the head,
I mourn the poet who fell dead.…

Caught still as Absalom,
Surely the air hangs
From the swayless cloud-boughs
Like hair of AbsalomCaught and hanging still.…

Ah,
Koelue!
Had you embalmed your beauty, so It could not backward go,
Or change in any way

I love you, great new Titan!
Am I not you?
Napoleon or
Out of you grew.

(вид из левой колонны)Мои глаза ловят могучие шеи,
Сильно откинутые назад —
Их кирпично-красное мерцание.
Руки, как огненные маятники,…

I walk and
To hear the birds sing,
Without you my
How can there be Spring?