Afanasy Fet
- Swallows, by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Calm Nature's idle spy, I follow /
In joy her pathways; free and fond, /
I watch the arrow-winged swift swallow /
Who curves above the duskin...
- Swallows, by unknown author
On nature ever idly spying, /
Forgetting all around, I'm fond /
Of watching arrowy swallows flying, /
When evening comes, above the pond.
See t...
- Swallows, by U. R. Bowie
I love to play the idle spy, /
And watch, oblivious to all, /
A swoop-flit swallow on the fly, /
O’er pond as evening nears nightfall.
Look the...
- The Swallow, by Vladimir Nabokov
When prying idly into Nature /
I am particularly fond /
Of watching the arrow of a swallow /
Over the sunset of a pond.
See — there it goes, an...
in spanish Afanásiy Fet (español)
- Golondrinas, Joaquín Torquemada Sánchez
Espía atento y acechante, /
olvido el mundo alrededor; /
la golondrina del estanque /
seduce toda mi atención.
Surca, en el aire dibujada, /
...