Alexander Blok
- Let the dawn keep shining out..., by Alec Vagapov
- Let the nightingale resound..., by Andrey Kneller
«To read only children's books, / To cherish only children's thoughts. / All grown-up things to disperse far away, / And to rise from a deep sorrow. I am mortally tired of life, / I accept nothing of it, / But I love my poor earth, / Because I’ve seen no other. I swung myself in a far...»
«Speak not of ways of good and bad: / Both are the ways of good. / At dawn, by Freedom I was led / To where they split; I stood As Freedom said, “Two ways here run, / Two truths, two merits split. / The crowd will struggle choosing one, / The wise won’t toil one bit. The things tha...»
«Perhaps the world was once a fine endeavor; / Perhaps those living now are cursed by Fate. / I still have one belief, one truth, however: / That every age must honor its own trait. I shall not trade my dolefulness, my trial / For all the joy and bliss of ancient days. / We equally serve G...»
«The mounts of Dagestan enclosed the sun; / A star came up; the breeze was lightly reeling; / And looking to the East, all prayed as one: / Reciting the Quran, Tatars were kneeling, Christ’s servants crossed themselves for holy sake, / Kalmyks sought Lama’s word, their silence ample...»