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«То, что люблю, придет воздушным гостем…» 100 английских стихотворений (1837–1918) для начального чтения = 100 English Poems (1837–1918) - стр. 40

Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er

She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,

The dropping of the daylight in the West,

The bough of cherries some officious fool

Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule

She rode with round the terrace – all and each

Would draw from her alike the approving speech,

Or blush, at least. She thanked men – good! but thanked

Somehow – I know not how – as if she ranked

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame

This sort of trifling? Even had you skill

In speech – which I have not – to make your will

Quite clear to such an one, and say, ‘Just this

Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,

Or there exceed the mark’ – and if she let

Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set

Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse —

E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose

Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands

As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet

The company below, then. I repeat,

The Count your master’s known munificence

Is ample warrant that no just pretense

Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;

Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed

At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go

Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,

Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Love in a life

(Любовь в жизни)

Room after room (комнату за комнатой),

I hunt the house through (я обыскиваю дом; to hunt – охотиться /обычно с гончими/; разыскивать, искать, рыскать в поисках /чего-либо, кого-либо/; прочесывать /в поисках чего-либо/: hunt the woods – прочесывать лес; through [θru:] – через, сквозь; насквозь)

We inhabit together (/в котором/ мы вместе проживаем/живем; to inhabit [ɪn'hæbɪt] – жить, обитать; населять).

Heart, fear nothing (сердце, не бойся ничего), for, heart, thou shalt find her (ибо, сердце, ты найдешь ее; thou [ðaʋ] shalt – /уст., поэт./ = you shall)

Next time (следующий раз), herself (ее самое)! not the trouble behind her (/а/ не волнение, ею за собой: «позади нее/за ней»; trouble [trʌbl] – беспокойство, волнение, тревога)

Left in the curtain (оставленное в шторе; to leave – оставлять; curtain ['kɜ:t(ə)n] – занавеска, штора), the couch’s perfume (в аромате кушетки; couch [kaʋʧ] – диван, софа, кушетка; perfume ['pɜ:fju:m] – благоухание, аромат)!

As she brushed it (когда она задела его;

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