Whispering. A timid sigh.
A nightingale that trills.
Silver, and a lullaby
From the unseen rills.
Twilight with a deepening blue.
Darkness falls apace.
Beauty yields to beauties new
On her enchanted face.
Roses when the greyness clears,
That amber drives away.
And love, and love again, and tears,
And the break of day.
Шёпот, робкое дыханье,
Трели соловья,
Серебро и колыханье
Сонного ручья,
Свет ночной, ночные тени,
Тени без конца,
Ряд волшебных изменений
Милого лица,
В дымных тучках пурпур розы,
Отблеск янтаря,
И лобзания, и слёзы,
И заря, заря!..
«Above the church there are blue clouds, / A crows' cry... / And pass — the color of ash and sand — / Revolutionary troops... oh my / Blue-blooded, my kingly angst! They don't have a face, don't have a name — / Nobody sings! / You got lost, the Kremlin ringing / In this banner fo...»
«1 Winds have gone to sleep — with golden dawn, / Night comes — with a mountain of stone, / And with his princess from hot land / Rests the rabid chieftain. Having gathered his youthful shoulders in a sack / He listened, his forehead leaning back, / How over his hot tent it thunders ...»
«2 Over Volga — night, / Over Volga — sleep... / Ornate rugs they have laid down, / And on them the chieftain has laid / With a Persian princess — black brows. One can't see the stars, one can't hear the waves, / Oars and darkness extreme, this is all! / And the shuttle bears aw...»
«3 (Dream of Razin) And Razin dreams a dream: / Like a cry of a heron of the swamp. / And Razin dreams a ringing: / Like silver droplets drop. And Razin dreams of the bottom: / With flowers, like a kerchief, covered. / And he dreams of one face — / Forgotten, with black brows. He si...»