Тема за англоезична поезия

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Напоследък чета доста англоезична поезия, та затова реших да пусна и такава тема.

Започвам с едно стихотворение на стария циник Чарлз Буковски:

Cause And Effect

the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them

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Едно от любимия ми английски романтик - Пърси Биш Шели:

Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

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Едно стихотворение на Джон Ленън и Йоко Оно, за т. нар. Кървава неделя , направено на песен:

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Well it was Sunday Bloody Sunday
When they shot the people there
The cries of thirteen martyrs
Filled the Derry air.
Is there anyone amongst you
Dares to blame it on the kids?
Not a soldier boy was bleeding
When they nailed the coffin lids!
Sunday bloody sunday
Bloody sunday is the day!
You claim to be majority
Well you know that's a lie.
You're really a minority
From the bloody English hands
When Stormont bans our marches
They've got a lot to learn!
Interment is no answer
It's those mother's turn to burn
You anglo pigs and Scotties
Sent to colonize the North
You wave you Bloody Union Jacks
And you know whet it's worth!
How dare you hold the ransom
A people proud and free?
Keep Ireland for the irish
Put the english to sea!
Sunday bloody sunday
Bloody sunday is the day!
Well it's always Bloody sunday
In contrentration camps
Keep Falls road free forever
On this sweet esmerald isle.
Repatriate to britain
All of you who call it home
Leave Ireland for the Irish
Not for London or for Rome!