Alexander Blok

Snow maiden, by Maya Jouravel
She hailed from a very distant country, / Nocturnal child of ancient times; / She had no kin to greet her entry / Not even skies with a welcome ...
The Snow Maiden, by Yevgeny Bonver
She came to me from the vast distance — / The child of night and other times. / Her kin were lost in space and seasons, / Our skies didn’t brig...

«Water (Tanka)»
Andrei Bely

«And water? A moment – clear... / A moment – circles, mottled, fish... / Just so thought! Here she is... / But she is – the depths, / Entered with trepidation.»
«Life (Tanka)»
Andrei Bely

«Above the grass little moth – / A flower, self-propelled flower.... / Just so I: into wind – death – / above me – a stem – / I fly by as a moth.»
«The Winged Soul»
Andrei Bely

«Your eyes' deep bluishness / odored into my soul like the wind : / My soul with you has endawned... / Thus with a suspended twitter / across into the blue she fluttered.»
«A Machine»
Maximilian Voloshin

«1 As there is no inventor, / Who by drafting a machine, / Had not imagined his creation / To ennoble humans, / There is no machine / That did not bring the world / The most misery / And the new kinds of enslavement! 2 While human hand had pushed the lever, / And waters / Spined ...»

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