Sara Teasdale

Я разрешила бы исчезнуть
Всему и всем, как страшный сон,
Но как мне бросить в ту же бездну
Весь в зимних звездах небосклон?И городам, где мрак столетний,…

I have remembered beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to seeA shower of sunlight over
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,

Пришла похоронить Любовь,
Разбить бы вдребезги!
Под деревом в лесу густом,
Где не видать ни зги.Не будет в головах цветов,…

Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy fragrance and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,…

The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,
Nothing stays with me long,
But I have had from a child
The deep solace of song;If that should ever leave me,…

When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I have looked Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,

Deep in the night the cry of a swallow,
Under the stars he flew,
Keen as pain was his call to follow
Over the world to you.Love in my heart is a cry forever…

In my heart the old love
Struggled with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night through.Dear things, kind things,…

Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
From the immense blue circle of the sea,
And the soft thunder where long waves whiten—
These were the same for Sappho as for me.Two thousand years—much has gone by forever,…

Созрели песни в сердце у меня,
Так от плодов изнемогает сад,
Но я их подарить вам не могу —
Они уже не мне принадлежат.Но в сумерках, когда при свете звёзд…

O LOVELY chance, what can I do
To give my gratefulness to you?
You rise between myself and me
With a wise persistency;…

Пели весной ручьи,
Летом иссякли, в зной;
Юность пела в крови,
Нынче в душе покой.Юности шумный вал,…

Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars
That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place,…

One by one, like leaves from a tree All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head Burn in white and delicate red,
And beneath my feet the earth Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
I who was content to be But a…

Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the starlike sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
High on the rocky shore.But now in the dusk the tide is turning,…

Bring me the roses white and red,
And take the laurel leaves away;
Yea, wreathe the roses round my
That wearies 'neath the crown of bay."We searched the wintry forests thro'And found no roses anywhere—But we have brought a little

My soul lives in my body's house,
And you have both the house and her —But sometimes she is less your own Than a wild, gay adventurer;
A restless and an eager wraith,
How can I tell what she will do —Oh,

Смерть шла по коридору,
Невидима никем,
Сиделку миновала
В монашеском платке,Прислушивалась чутко…

Глаза, что может видеть он,
И руки, что рукам — экстаз,
Но я для милого — лишь сон,
Только лишь — глас.Есть грудь, чтоб к ней склонить главу,…

It will not hurt me when I am old,
A running tide where moonlight
Will not sting me like silver snakes;
The years will make me sad and cold,

Out of the window a sea of green trees
Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer,
They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!"
But I cannot answer.I am alone with Weakness and Pain,…

There! See the line of lights,
A chain of stars down either side the street--
Why can't you lift the chain and give it to me,
A necklace for my throat? I'd twist it round…

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

MY SOUL is a dark ploughed field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.Where grass and bending flowers…