A magic landscape,
My heart's delight:
A full moon’s brightness,
A plain sheer white,
The high sky lighted,
The snow’s pure ray,
And far-off gliding,
A lonely sleigh.
Чудная картина,
Как ты мне родна:
Белая равнина,
Полная луна,
Свет небес высоких,
И блестящий снег,
И саней далёких
Одинокий бег.
«I can’t forgive myself — / Though the others I’ve forgiven all — / That in your pernicious fate / I changed nothing, / Helped you in no way, / Failed to protect you from death. All that your soul requested, / All that it loved here... / I was unable. I could not. So little wa...»
«When you're drunk it's so much fun — / An early fall has strung / The elms with yellow flags. / We've strayed into the land of deceit / And we're repenting bitterly, / Why then are we smiling these / Strange and frozen smiles? / We wanted piercing anguish / Instead of placid happin...»
«How many demands the beloved can make! / The woman discarded, none. / How glad I am that today the water / Under the colorless ice is motionless. / And I stand — Christ help me! — / On this shroud that is brittle and bright, / But save my letters / So that our descendants can decid...»
«Somewhere there is a simple life and a world, / Transparent, warm and joyful... / There at evening a neighbor talks with a girl / Across the fence, and only the bees can hear / This most tender murmuring of all. / But we live ceremoniously and with difficulty / And we observe the rites o...»