Alexander Blok
- My friend, you`ll understand, of course!.., by Alec Vagapov
Alexandre Blok (français)
- Mon pauvre, mon lointain ami!.., Jacques Mascotto
«Three springs in life's unbroken joyless desert / Mysteriously issue from the sands: / The spring of youth, uneven and rebellious, / Bears swift its sparkling stream through sunny lands; / Life's exiles drink the wave of inspiration / That swells the limpid fount of Castaly; / But 'tis t...»
«I dragged my flesh through desert gloom, / Tormented by the spirit's yearning, / And saw a six-winged Seraph loom / Upon the footpath's barren turning. / And as a dream in slumber lies / So light his finger on my eyes, — / My wizard eyes grew wide and wary: / An eagle's, startled fro...»
«Sleep I cannot find, nor light: / Everywhere is dark and slumber, / Only weary tickings number / The slow hours of the night. / Parca, jabbering, woman-fashion, / Sleeping night, without compassion, / Life, who stirs like rustling mice, / Why encage me in thy vise? / Why the whisperi...»
«Here is the long-bided hour: the labor of years is accomplished. / Why should this sadness unplumbed secretly weigh on my heart? / Is it, my work being done, I stand like a laborer, useless, / One who has taken his pay, alien to unwonted tasks? / Is it the work I regret, the silent com...»