Alexander Blok
- You are as bright as snow, my dear..., by Alec Vagapov
- You’re like a temple, tall and white..., by Andrey Kneller
«Pineapples in champagne! Pineapples in champagne! / Deliriously tasty, sparkling and bright! / Im in something from Norway! Im in something from Spain! / Im inspired in bursts and I sit down to write. Planes are screeching above me! Automobiles are running! / Express trains whistling by and...»
«Im nightingale: no traits I carry / And without special depth I sing. / But everyone, from crone to baby, / Will know me, singer of the spring. Im nightingale, I am a graybird, / But like a rainbow is my song. / I only have a single habit: / To other lands to lure the throng. Im nighti...»
«Love is a causelessness. Thoughtlessness even. / To love for a reason? I love for I feel. / Love is like a troika, demented and rabid, / Rushing toward a ship that is leaving to sail. Where to? Does not matter. I like aimless journeys. / Magnolias blooming... Wandering ice... / Fly onward...»
«Theyre "red" today, and theyre "white" tomorrow — / Ah, no tapestry! No flowers, this! / Tiresome to me to the point of nausea, / Small people hideous and turned to beasts. Lowly today and tomorrow lowly, / Today the thieves and tomorrow too. / Vile scoundrels now and vile scoundrels f...»