Волшебница Шалотт и другие стихотворения

And round about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott.

And down the river’s dim expanse
Like some bold seёr in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance —
With a glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.

Lying robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right —
The leaves upon her falling light —
Thro’ the noises of the night
She floated down to Camelot:
And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott.

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darken’d wholly,
Turn’d to tower’d Camelot.
For ere she reach’d upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,
The Lady of Shalott.

Under tower and balcony,
By garden-wall and gallery,
A gleaming shape she floated by,
Dead-pale between the houses high,
Silent into Camelot.
Out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and burgher, lord and dame,
And round the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott.

Who is this? and what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they cross’d themselves for fear,
All the knights at Camelot:
But Lancelot mused a little space;
He said, ‘She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.’

ВОЛШЕБНИЦА ШАЛОТТ

ЧАСТЬ I

По берегам реки легли
Поля возделанной земли,
Что с небом сходятся вдали,
А через луг — тропа в пыли
Уводит к замку Камелот.
Проходят люди чередой,
Глядят туда, где над водой
Качает лилии прибой
Вкруг острова Шалотт.

Дремлют буки, никнут ивы,
Ветерок колышет нивы,
Волны вечного прилива
Мимо острова лениво
Катят к замку Камелот.
Башен четырех громады
Поднимаются над садом —
То — безмолвная ограда
Волшебницы Шалотт.

Кони под зеленой сенью
Тянут барки по теченью;
Покоряясь дуновенью,
Челноки крылатой тенью
Мчатся к замку Камелот.
Но кто в какие времена
Ее приметил у окна?
Известна ль в тех краях она —
Волшебница Шалотт?