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.
«You, measuring me by the days — / With me, the hot and homeless one, / Did you walk on the flaming squares / Under the giant, burning moon? And in the tavern filled with plague, / When solemn waltz a screech did make, / Did you not in a drunken fist / My long and piercing fingers bre...»
«1 Under the sixth birch / At the corner church / On the frosty dawn / Wait, Don Juan! But with groom, alas, / And my life I swear, / There is nowhere / In my land to kiss! We don't have a fountain, / And the well did freeze, / Strict, severe eyes / Does Madonna have. And so th...»
«2 Long upon the foggy dawn / The snowstorm did weep. / In a bed of snow they lay / Don Juan to sleep. No hot stars above his head, / Not a roaring fountain... / Othodox cross is on the chest / Of our Don Juan. I have brought a Sevillian / Fan, black, so that night / That's eternal...»
«3 Aren't you tired, after so many roses, / Cities and toasts / To love me? You're almost a skeleton, / I'm almost a ghost. And why should I know, that you had to call / On a higher power? / And why should I know, that there was smell of Nile / In my hair? No, I better tell you a tale:...»