Poetic Gems for Poetry Lovers = Поэтические жемчужины для любителей поэзии

Poetic Gems 
for 
Poetry Lovers 

Учебное пособие 

Москва
Берлин
2020 

Второе издание,
переработанное и дополненное

УДК 811.111(075) 
ББК 81.432.1-5я7 
Н55 
Составители: 
Ирина Валентиновна Несветайлова, 
Светлана Георгиевна Носырева. 

       Poetic Gems for Poetry Lovers. Поэтические жемчужины 
Н55  для любителей поэзии : учебное пособие / примечания  

Несветайлова И. В., предисловие Носырева С. Г. –  2 изд.,  
перераб. и доп. – Москва ;  Берлин :  2020. – 141 с.

ISBN 978-5-4499-0678-6 

В пособие включены оригинальные произведения великих 
мастеров англоязычной поэзии. Работа с текстом в сочетании с 
прослушиванием звуковых файлов пособия будет способствовать 
эффективному постепенному приобретению произносительно-
интонационных навыков и может служить дополнением к учебной 
программе в работе на уроках и во внеурочной деятельности. 
Данное пособие станет полезным и увлекательным для 
изучающих английский язык на «начальном», «продолжающем» и 
«продвинутом» уровнях. 
Пособие поможет всем интересующимся открыть красоту 
бессмертных 
шедевров 
англоязычной 
поэзии 
и 
расширить 
кругозор. 

В оформлении титульного листа использована картина 
Жакоба Абраама Камала Писсарро «Утро в Эраньи». 
Текст печатается в авторской редакции.

УДК 811.111(075) 
ББК 81.432.1-5я7 

ISBN 978-5-4499-0678-6 
© Примечание Несветайлова И. В., предисловие 
Носырева С. Г., 2020 
© Издательство «Директ-Медиа», оформление, 2020 

Content 

Foreword...................................................................................... 9 

William Blake........................................................................... 11 

THE TIGER ............................................................................ 12 

CRADLE SONG.................................................................... 13 

A POISON TREE................................................................... 14 

INTRODUCTION................................................................. 15 

LOVE’S SECRET ................................................................... 16 

TO THE MUSES.................................................................... 17 

THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER................................................. 18 

THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER................................................. 19 

HEAR THE VOICE............................................................... 20 

THE SCHOOLBOY............................................................... 21 

I HEARD AN ANGEL.......................................................... 23 

Robert Burns............................................................................. 24 

MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS................................ 25 

A RED, RED ROSE ............................................................... 26 

BONNIE BELL....................................................................... 27 

JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO................................................ 28 

UP IN THE MORNING EARLY......................................... 29 

William Wordsworth............................................................... 30 

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD ........................... 31 

LUCY ...................................................................................... 32 

COMPOSED AFTER A JOURNEY  ACROSS THE 

HAMBLETON HILLS,  YORKSHIRE ................................34 

COMPOSED IN THE VALLEY  NEAR DOVER, 

ON THE DAY OF LANDING.............................................35 

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING ..............................36 

WRITTEN IN MARCH.........................................................37 

TO A SKYLARK....................................................................38 

EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH ........................................39 

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US ..........................40 

UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE .......................................41 

LOUISA ..................................................................................42 

Percy Bysshe Shelley...............................................................43 

OZYMANDIAS .....................................................................44 

LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY ........................................................45 

GOOD-NIGHT ......................................................................46 

MUTABILITY ........................................................................48 

John Keats..................................................................................49 

DAISY’S SONG .....................................................................50 

BRIGHT STAR.......................................................................51 

A THING OF BEAUTY  (ENDYMION).............................52 

WRITTEN ON A BLANK SPACE  AT THE END OF 

CHAUCER’S TALE  OF THE FLOWRE AND  

THE LEFE...............................................................................53 

WHEN I HAVE FEARS  THAT I MAY CEASE 

TO BE...................................................................................... 54 

George Gordon Byron............................................................. 55 

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY................................................... 56 

I SAW THEE WEEP.............................................................. 57 

MY SOUL IS DARK.............................................................. 58 

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB ...................... 59 

TWILIGHT............................................................................. 60 

I WOULD I WERE A CARELESS CHILD......................... 61 

WHEN WE TWO PARTED................................................. 63 

SO, WE’LL GO NO MORE A ROVING ............................ 65 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.............................................. 66 

THE ARROW AND THE SONG........................................ 67 

THE RAINY DAY................................................................. 68 

A SUMMER DAY BY THE SEA ......................................... 69 

CHRISTMAS BELLS............................................................. 70 

HOLIDAYS............................................................................ 72 

Edgar Allan Poe........................................................................ 73 

ANNABEL LEE..................................................................... 74 

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM......................................... 76 

THE BELLS ............................................................................ 77 

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.................................................... 81 

A LIGHT EXISTS IN SPRING............................................. 82 

A BIRD CAME DOWN ........................................................83 

SUMMER SHOWER.............................................................84 

A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS............................85 

AN AWFUL TEMPEST MASHED THE AIR....................86 

Robert Louis Stevenson..........................................................87 

MY SHADOW .......................................................................88 

BED IN SUMMER.................................................................89 

THE COW ..............................................................................90 

WINTER TIME ......................................................................91 

TO ANY READER.................................................................92 

SPRING SONG......................................................................93 

ABOUT THE SHELTERED  GARDEN  GROUND..........94 

LOVE’S VICISSITUDES .......................................................95 

AN ENGLISH BREEZE........................................................96 

FAREWELL TO THE FARM ...............................................97 

THE WIND.............................................................................98 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.................................................................99 

THE WINDS OF FATE.......................................................100 

VOICE OF THE VOICELESS.............................................101 

SOLITUDE............................................................................102 

THE CAPTIVE.....................................................................103 

THE DEPTHS.......................................................................104 

Robert Lee Frost......................................................................105 

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN................................................. 106 

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING..... 107 

ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT ............................... 108 

A LATE WALK ................................................................... 109 

MY NOVEMBER GUEST................................................... 110 

THE SOUND OF THE TREES........................................... 111 

A PRAYER IN SPRING...................................................... 112 

Oscar Wilde............................................................................. 113 

SYMPHONY IN YELLOW................................................ 114 

MADONNA MIA ............................................................... 115 

IMPRESSION DU MATIN ................................................ 116 

William Shakespeare ............................................................ 117 

SONNET 18.......................................................................... 118 

SONNET 29.......................................................................... 119 

SONNET 55.......................................................................... 120 

SONNET 109........................................................................ 121 

SONNET 116........................................................................ 122 

SONNET 130........................................................................ 123 

O MISTRESS MINE,  WHERE ARE YOU 

ROAMING?......................................................................... 124 

Cecil Frances Alexander ....................................................... 125 

ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL .................... 126 

FOUR SEASONS................................................................. 127 

THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY .........................128 

Lewis Carroll...........................................................................129 

A NURSERY DARLING.....................................................130 

LIFE IS BUT A DREAM .....................................................131 

MY FAIRY ............................................................................132 

Joseph Rudyard Kipling.......................................................133 

IF............................................................................................134 

A CHILD’S GARDEN.........................................................136 

I KEEP SIX HONEST SERVING-MEN ............................137 

ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ.....................................................................138 

Foreword 

Inspiration. Where does it come from? Nature, fine arts, 
music, feelings, emotions, human relationships, ups and downs, 
triumphs and tragedies, important events and attitude to them. 
Admiration. What is it based on? Genius, talent, uniqueness 
of form and expression, yet universal perception whatever epoch 
or location, beauty and harmony, preciseness of rhymes and 
sounds, dedication and determination. 
Poetic gems. We are blessed to enjoy the poetic 
masterpieces of English and American literature as a source of 
our emotional delight and linguistic advancement. We are 
thankful to the creators of poetic gems for giving us music to our 
ears and food for thought. We admire their inspirational power. 
In this collection we have compiled the best poems by 
renowned English, Scottish and American poets William Blake, 
Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John 
Keats, George Gordon Byron, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 
Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Robert Louis 
Stevenson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Robert Lee Frost, Oscar Wilde, 
William Shakespeare, Cecil Frances Alexander, Lewis Carroll, 
Joseph Rudyard Kipling. 
It is a huge honour and privilege for English learners to be 
able to get acquainted with these poetic treasures, to read, learn 
and recite them in order to progress in English in the English 
language classroom and extra-curricular activities. 
It’s an enormous pleasure for English teachers to 
incorporate best literary creations of outstanding poets into 
educational process of teaching pronunciation, to apply these and 
other poems to classes of Practical Phonetics, to Phonetic 
Competitions and Phonetic Olympiads, to the workshops for 
schoolchildren and school teachers. 

This book is a tribute to enduring poetic legacy of British 
and American lyricists, and at the same time, it is a textbook for 
English learners to master their phonetic, lexical and oratory 
skills. 

 
 

William Blake 

(1757–1827) 
 

 
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and 
printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is 
now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and 
visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic works have been 
said to form “what is in proportion to its merits the least read 
body of poetry in the English language”. He produced a diverse 
and symbolically rich works of art, which embraced the 
imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself”. 
 

 

 

 

THE TIGER 

 
Tiger Tiger, burning bright,  
In the forests of the night;  
What immortal hand or eye, 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry 
 
In what distant deeps or skies.  
Burnt the fire of thine eyes! 
On what wings dare he aspire?  
What the hand, dare sieze the fire! 
 
And what shoulder, & what art.  
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?  
And when thy heart began to beat,  
What dread hand! & what dread feet! 
 
What the hammer! what the chain,  
In what furnace was thy brain  
What the anvil, what dread grasp,  
Dare its deadly terrors clasp! 
 
When the stars threw down their spear  
And water’d heaven with their tears:  
Did he smile his work to see 
Did he who made the Lamb make thee! 
 
Tiger Tiger burning bright,  
In the forests of the night:  
What immortal hand or eye, 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry. 
 

CRADLE SONG 

 
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,  
Dreaming in the joys of night;  
Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep 
Little sorrows sit and weep. 
 
Sweet babe, in thy face  
Soft desires I can trace, 
Secret joys and secret smiles, 
Little pretty infant wiles. 
 
As thy softest limbs I feel,  
Smiles as of the morning steal 
O’er thy cheek, and o’er thy breast  
Where thy little heart doth rest. 
 
 
O the cunning wiles that creep  
In thy little heart asleep! 
When thy little heart doth wake, 
Then the dreadful night shall break. 
 

A POISON TREE 

 
I was angry with my friend: 
I told my wrath, my wrath did end. 
I was angry with my foe: 
I told it not, my wrath did grow. 
 
And I watered it in fears, 
Night and morning with my tears;  
And I sunnèd it with smiles, 
And with soft deceitful wiles. 
 
And it grew both day and night,  
Till it bore an apple bright; 
And my foe beheld it shine,  
And he knew that it was mine, 
 
And into my garden stole, 
When the night had veiled the pole:  
In the morning glad I see 
My foe outstretched beneath the tree. 
 

INTRODUCTION 

(from “ Songs of Innocence”) 
 
Piping down the valleys wild,  
Piping songs of peasant glee,  
On a cloud I saw a child,   
And he, laughing, said to me: 
 
“Pipe a song about a lamb!”  
So I piped with merry cheer.  
“Piper, pipe that song again;” 
So I piped: he wept to hear. 
 
“Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;  
Sing thy songs of happy cheer!” 
So I sang the same again,   
While he wept with joy to hear. 
 
“Piper, sit thee down and write  
In a book, that all may read.” 
So he vanished from my sight; 
And I plucked a hollow reed, 
 
 
And I made a rural pen,  
And I stain’d the water clear,  
And I wrote my happy songs  
Every child may joy to hear. 
 

LOVE’S SECRET 

 
Never seek to tell thy love,  
Love that never told can be;  
For the gentle wind doth move  
Silently, invisibly. 
 
I told my love, I told my love,  
I told her all my heart, 
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.  
Ah! she did depart! 
 
Soon after she was gone from me,  
A traveller came by, 
Silently, invisibly: 
He took her with a sigh.