«Foreigner sits in a stifling tavern / In the hour when all seems dead, / Leaving behind the dullard drunkards / I walk out and clear my head. Courage of the midnight women / And the crazy stars' cold might, / And a bum is begging money / For a room to spend the night. Who, please tell ...»
«On Sunday walk near Protestant cathedral / I came across a funeral in motion / The absent-minded passerby I noticed / Put all of them in a severe commotion. The foreign language did not reach my ear / And only a thin whiplash shone clear / And the empty holiday thoroughfare / Reflected ...»
«1. Hagia Sofia — here to stop and stare / The Lord has ordered people and the tsars! / Your dome, as an eyewitness once described it, / As if by chains is hanging from the stars. 2. To all a shining light — age of Justinian, / When to steal off for foreign gods unseen / Dedicated D...»
«1. Where Roman magistrate once judged the foreign nation / Basilica stands. With muscles bursts / A light and cross-shaped bridge: Christ joyful, like the first / Adam, having spread his nerves out in elation. 2. But will reveal itself the hidden plan! / Here might of granite arches took ...»