Thomas Stearns Eliot

Если б я думал, что отвечаю человеку,
Который когда-нибудь сможет вернуться на землю,
Это пламя не дрожало бы.
Но так как никто, как я слышал,…

Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.Daffodil bulbs instead of balls…

En l'an trentiesme de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues...Pipit sate upright in her chair
Some distance from where I was sitting;
Views of the Oxford Colleges…

A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,…

Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
Now when she died there was silence in heaven…

The tiger in the tiger-pit
Is not more irritable than I.
The whipping tail is not more still
Than when I smell the enemy…

Джеллейные кошки — все как одна –
Покинут на ночь родной квартал:
Джеллейная светит сегодня Луна,
Сегодня у кошек Джеллейный Бал.Джеллейные кошки черны и белы,…

In a brown field stood a tree
And the tree was crookt and dry.
In a black sky, from a green cloud
Natural forces shriek'd aloud,…

Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe.The circles of the stormy moon…

«В холод же мы пошли,
В худшее время года
Для путешествия; да еще такого:
Дороги – каша, и ветер в лицо,…

Mistah Kurtz is deadA Penny for the Old GuyIWe are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece lilled with straw. Alas!…

Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute;
Mais une nuit d'été, les voici à Ravenne,
A l'sur le dos écartant les genoux
De quatre jambes molles tout gonflées de morsures.…

Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them—
The barren New England hills—
Riding to hounds…

Мака́вити всего лишь Кот, но не простой – Таинственный,
В искусстве обходить Закон – специалист единственный.
На флангах, с фронта и в тылу – ищейки в наступлении,
Но не застукать им Кота на месте преступления!Мака́вити, Мака́вити, к законам – без почтения.…

Голоса детей среди яблонь
Меж цветеньем и урожаем;
Золотые и алые головки
Между кроной и корневищем.…

And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation. Look, look, wenches!Paint me a cavernous waste shore…

Look, look, master, here comes two religious
caterpillars.The Jew of Malta.Polyphiloprogenitive
The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes.…

When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery…

Аккорды ветра бродят, бредя,
В зеленых Расселскверских нетях;
Их всхлип налип на листья лип,
На тусклый мозг, на нервов крик,…

O quam te memorem Virgo...Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair--
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise--…

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her
laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were
only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I
was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary…

Thou hast nor youth nor age
But as it were an after dinner sleep
Dreaming of both.Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.…

Стоял на буром поле ствол,
И этот ствол был крив и гол.
Во тьме небес, в зеленой туче
Кричал, урчал и выл тягуче…

Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire—nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus—the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how charming its grey and pink—
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!—so the…