Уильям Вордсворт - Избранная лирика

She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless —
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: —
We murder to dissect.

Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

Встань! Оторвись от книг, мой друг!
К чему бесплодное томленье?
Взгляни внимательней вокруг,
Не то тебя состарит чтенье!

Вот солнце над громадой гор
Вослед полуденному зною
Зеленый залило простор
Вечерней нежной желтизною.

Как сладко иволга поет!
Спеши внимать ей! пенье птицы
Мне больше мудрости дает,
Чем эти скучные страницы.

Послушать проповедь дрозда
Ступай в зеленую обитель!
Там просветишься без труда:
Природа — лучший твой учитель.

Богатство чудное свое
Она дарует нам с любовью.
И в откровениях ее
Веселье дышит и здоровье.

Тебе о сущности добра
И человечьем назначенье
Расскажут вешние ветра,
А не мудреные ученья.

Ведь наш безжизненный язык,
Наш разум в суете напрасной
Природы искажают лик,
Разъяв на части мир прекрасный.

Искусств не надо и наук.
В стремленье к подлинному знанью
Ты сердце научи, мой друг,
Вниманию и пониманью.

The little hedgerow birds,
That peck along the roads, regard him not.
He travels on, and in his face, his step,
His gait, is one expression: every limb,
His look and bending figure, all bespeak
A man who does not move with pain, but moves
With thought. - He is insensibly subdued
To settled quiet: he is one by whom
All effort seems forgotten; one to whom
Long patience hath such mild composure given,
That patience now doth seem a thing of which
He hath no need. He is by nature led
To peace so perfect that the young behold
With envy, what the Old Man hardly feels.
I asked him whither he was bound, and what
The object of his journey; he replied
"Sir! I am going many miles to take
A last leave of my son, a mariner,
Who from a sea-fight has been brought to Falmouth,
And there is dying in a hospital."

Не возбуждая любопытства птиц,
Облюбовавших придорожный куст,
Он все идет — лицо его, шаги,
Походка выражают лишь одно:
И в сгорбленной фигуре, и в глазах
Таится не страдание, но мысль;
Он так упорно приучал себя
К бесстрастью, что при взгляде на него
Не помнишь об усильях; он из тех,
Кого долготерпенье привело
К столь кроткому смиренью, что ему
Терпеть уже не трудно. И покой
Его так совершенен, что юнец,
Завидуя, глядит ему вослед.
На мой вопрос, куда он держит путь,
С какою целью? — он ответил так:
"Иду я в Фелмут к сыну своему.
Он ранен был в сражении морском.
Сейчас в больнице умирает он,
И я хочу успеть проститься с ним".

I

Before I see another day,
Oh let my body die away!
In sleep I heard the northern gleams;
The stars, they were among my dreams;
In rustling conflict through the skies,
I heard, I saw the flashes drive,
And yet they are upon my eyes,
And yet I am alive;
Before I see another day,
Oh let my body die away!

II

My fire is dead: it knew no pain;
Yet is it dead, and I remain:
All stiff with ice the ashes lie;
And they are dead, and I will die.
When I was well, I wished to live,
For clothes, for warmth, for food, and fire;
But they to me no joy can give,
No pleasure now, and no desire.
Then here contented will I lie!
Alone, I cannot fear to die.

III

Alas! ye might have dragged me on
Another day, a single one!
Too soon I yielded to despair;
Why did ye listen to my prayer?
When ye were gone my limbs were stronger;
And oh, how grievously I rue,
That, afterwards, a little longer,
My friends, I did not follow you!
For strong and without pain I lay,
Dear friends, when ye were gone away.

IV

My Child! they gave thee to another,
A woman who was not thy mother.
When from my arms my Babe they took,
On me how strangely did he look!
Through his whole body something ran,
A most strange working did I see;
— As if he strove to be a man,
That he might pull the sledge for me:
And then he stretched his arms, how wild!
Oh mercy! like a helpless child.

V

My little joy! my little pride!
In two days more I must have died.
Then do not weep and grieve for me;
I feel I must have died with thee.
O wind, that o'er my head art flying
The way my friends their course did bend,
I should not feel the pain of dying,
Could I with thee a message send;
Too soon, my friends, ye went away;
For I had many things to say.