Phonetic festival

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was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in
1564, on the 23rd of

April and died
on the same day in 1616, and was
buried near Holy Trinity Church in
Stratford.
William Shakespeare was the
greatest and the best interpreter of human nature, the poet of the widest sympathies, of the most profound knowledge of mankind. He is famous for his «Romeo and Juliet», «Hamlet», «Twelfth night», and the Sonnets.

more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling

buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime decline,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life for thee.

poems of love and loss, of loneliness, infidelity, devouring time,

death, and ruthless age.

a man who had a very interesting fate.
His verses were

translated into Russian and published in our country in 50-60th.

everywhere.

Never were such lovely airs
Upstairs, downstairs,
Here and there and everywhere.

Some

one sings and some one shares
Upstairs, downstairs,
Here and there and everywhere.

Some one comes and some one cares
Upstairs, downstairs,
Here and there and everywhere.

Double love and double dares
Upstairs, downstairs,
Here and there and everywhere.

fine the weather,
How light the fire,
How heavy the load?
We walk

the road together!
Here’s the world to which we care,
Whatever the wind or wheather.
Height –ho for the goal,
Height –ho for the goal,
Height –ho that we together!

you work and worry,
I wish you, what I wish myself,
A

share in man’s sad story.
I wish you, on that next door day
We coax the world to spin our way
A share in all its glory

stairs the stars to see.
When you see them you want

see me-
Step up slowly, Greta Marie.

the first quarter of the 20th century,
most remembered for

his humorous verse for children, such as «The Elephant», «The Polar Bear» and many others.

me through:
For why? He has a coat of hair
I wish

I had one too!

and more.
At such a little tail behind,
So large a

trank before.

Romanticism in England. He wasn’t only the famous poet but

he was the brilliant painter engraver too.
Yet he was ignored by the public of his day; he lived on the edge of povetry and died in neglect.
In 1783 «Poetical scetches», the first remarkable volume of poetry was printed.
His verses have a freshness, a purity of vision and a lyric intensity.

the merry ring,
We’ll be fairies on the green,
Sporting round the

Fairy Queen.
Like a seasons of the year,
Round we circle in a sphere,
I’ll be summer you’ll be Spring
Dancing in the merry ring.
Spring and Summer glide away,
Autumn comes with tresses grey,
Winter hand in hand with spring
Dancing in a fairy ring.
Faster, faster round we go,
While our cheeks with roses glow,
Free as birds upon the wing,
Dancing in a fairy ring.

enjoined great fame in his life-time.
His finest works are:

«Beppo»,
«Mazeppa», «Don Juan».

cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that’s best of dark

and bright
Meet in your aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every rosen trees,
Or softly lightens of her face:
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

his own class of aristocrats. He took part in the

struggle for national independence of Greece against the Turks.

nest.
Weave together straw and feather,
Doing each your best

Spring is coming,

spring is coming,
Flowers are coming too:
Pansies, lilies, daffodillies,
Now are coming through.

Spring is coming, spring is coming,
All around is fair ,
Shimmer and quiver on the river,
Joy is everywhere.
We wish you happy May.