It sounded above the clear river,
It rang out in the fading meadow,
It swept above the silent grove,
It lit up the opposite shore.
Into the distant twilight
The river wound to the west.
Clouds, losing their gold hems,
Drifted like billows of smoke.
From the hillock — first damp then hot —
Sighs spread through the night air,
But summer lightning glimmers
With bright blue-green fire.
Прозвучало над ясной рекою,
Прозвенело в померкшем лугу,
Прокатилось над рощей немою,
Засветилось на том берегу.
Далеко, в полумраке, луками
Убегает на запад река.
Погорев золотыми каймами,
Разлетелись, как дым, облака.
На пригорке то сыро, то жарко,
Вздохи дня есть в дыханьи ночном, —
Но зарница уж теплится ярко
Голубым и зелёным огнём.
«“The eye of a horse,” he called his vision, / and now with his sidelong sight records / the puddles like liquid diamonds glistening, / the ice seized with a sudden longing, lilac shadows in drugged backyards / and logs and leaves and clouds and the rind / of a melon cracking, the trai...»
«The just man followed then his angel guide / Where he strode on the black highway, hulking and bright; / But a wild grief in his wife’s bosom cried, / Look back. it is not too late for a last sight Of the red towers of your native Sodom, the square / Where once you sang, the gardens you s...»
«All is despoiled, abandoned, sold; / Death’s wing has swept the sky of color; / All’s eaten by a hungry dolor. / What is this light which we behold? Odors of cherry blossom sigh / From the rumored forest beyond the town. / At night, new constellations crown / The high, clear heavens...»
«1 O two-tongued angel, on my grief a hundred / proof no less I should have got you drunk. / But I'm not one, whatever pain the lies encouraged / from the start, to claim a tooth for a tooth. / And now the clever, festering doom! Oh, no, betraying angel, it's not fatal, / not this sufferi...»