Lisa is afraid to love.
Nonsense, — that is not her manner!
Careful — what if it’s a bluff
And perhaps this new Diana
Has repressed her passion’s call —
And with shameful, glowing eyes
Walks among us in disguise,
Looking just for whom to fall.
Лизе страшно полюбить.
Полно, нет ли тут обмана?
Берегитесь — может быть,
Эта новая Диана
Притаила нежну страсть —
И стыдливыми глазами
Ищет робко между вами,
Кто бы ей помог упасть.
«I know nothing, I trust in nothing, / I no longer in life see its brighter side. / I approach my friend as if he were a lion / I need nothing else. I am bored and tired. Someone knifes someone, smothers another.. / Everywhere, cheating, lying and greed. / Would eyes not see and would ears...»
«She lies, opening her teats, strong, swollen, wide, / And at her breasts, their equal gift bestowing, / Mad Nero and meek Buddha clutch, unknowing, / As clinging twins who suckle side by side. / She holds two vessels, whence, forever flowing, / The streams of Life and Death serenely g...»
«Three times I saw him face to face. / The first time was in the gardens — / I had been sent to fetch food for my comrades, / and to make the journey shorter / I took the path by the palace wing; / suddenly I caught the tremor of strings, / and, being tall of stature, / I peered th...»
«How goest your life with another? / Any easier? One oar in the water, plink! / And off drifts the erstwhile once-lover. / Did all too soon the memory shrink Of me, the island that sails astray / (Through sky and not through watery mass)? / Souls, souls! You’re to be siblings now, hey! /...»