«То, что люблю, придет воздушным гостем…» 100 английских стихотворений (1837–1918) для начального чтения = 100 English Poems (1837–1918)

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,

Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip’s farm I flow

To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I chatter over stony ways,

In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret

By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I wind about, and in and out,

With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake

Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow

To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,

I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,

Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars

In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

«Dark house, [5] by which once more I stand…»

Dark house, by which once more I stand (темный дом, у которого я вновь стою; once more – еще раз, вновь)

    Here in the long unlovely street (здесь на = на этой длинной, некрасивой/унылой улице; unlovely [n'lvl] – непривлекательный, неприятный, противный),

    Doors, where my heart was used to beat (двери, где = перед которыми мое сердце обычно билось; used to – имело обыкновение /делать что-либо/)

So quickly (столь быстро = учащенно), waiting for a hand (в ожидании руки),

A hand that can be clasp’d no more (руки, которую больше нельзя пожать: «рука, которая не может быть более сжата»; to clasp – сдавить, сжать, крепко схватить /рукой/) —

    Behold me (смотри на меня; to behold [b'hld] – увидеть, заметить, узреть; behold! – вот!, смотри!), for I cannot sleep (ибо я не могу спать),

    And like a guilty thing I creep (и, словно провинившееся существо, я бреду; guilty ['lt] – виновный; виноватый; guilt [lt] – вина; чувство вины; to creep – ползать; пресмыкаться; красться; подкрадываться; ползти, медленно продвигаться; еле передвигать ноги)

At earliest morning to the door (самым ранним утром к двери).