You say that I’m asleep, and you
Laugh over me, humiliating
And you would force me to repeating
A hundred times “My love is true”.
Your southern voice is soft, your grace
The grace of a gazelle recalling
But I come to you from a place
Of storm where endless snows are falling.
Strange the light valse’s echoes seem
A stifling cloud above you lowers.
For me you are a lovely dream
That glitters through the snowy showers.
I am afraid to call you by
Your name. A name — what need for saying?
But let me feast my greedy eye
Upon your southern beauty straying,
Upon your face forgotten quite.
That calls to memory unavailing
Days fleeting, days of joy unfailing
Slain by a snowstorm in the night.
Ты говоришь, что я дремлю,
Ты унизительно хохочешь.
И ты меня заставить хочешь
Сто раз произнести: люблю.
Твой южный голос томен. Стан
Напоминает стан газели,
А я пришел к тебе из стран,
Где вечный снег и вой метели.
Мне странен вальса легкий звон
И душный облак над тобою.
Ты для меня — прекрасный сон,
Сквозящий пылью снеговою…
И я боюсь тебя назвать
По имени. Зачем мне имя?
Дай мне тревожно созерцать
Очами жадными моими
Твой южный блеск, забытый мной,
Напоминающий напрасно
День улетевший, день прекрасный,
Убитый ночью снеговой.
«Do I need excuses / For divine mismatching? — / Poetry and music / Aren't cure-all magic. And why hum insanely / Tunes and verses hopeless? / Having nothing saintly / Feels more fun and homeless. And our gain is pretty / Minuscule and fleeting — / Only heartfelt pity, / So th...»
«T. O.-T. My evening, silver-feathered, / All-consecrating light! / As if no longer present, / I turn to you my sight – With gratefulness: for every / Revitalizing breath, / That in my final craving / You granted to my breast, For every elevation / Of your becalming hand, / For a...»
«Our rendezvous, their each and every moment, / we celebrated as a holy omen, / Epiphany for just the two of us. / As daring as a wing, more light than dust, / you, down the stairway, like a dizzy torrent / ran skipping treads, and navigated past / the veil of lilac to the territory / u...»
«You were sleeping, today, while I was looking about us / into the shadows, a horseman in patrol. / It was then I understood exactly how late it was: / how death is waiting on stage, and how everything passes, / and though it looks innocent to scribble these lines / poetry is no longer priv...»