«You’ll live happy, evil-free, / You will judge and reign, / With your darling you will see / All your sons attain. You’ll succeed without trying, / Get respect and praise, / You won’t know that I’m, from crying, / Losing track of days. There are many homeless, slighted, / But...»
«1 The pillow is already hot / On both its sides. / The second candle’s at / Its end, and ravens’ cries / Are now resounding near. / I didn’t sleep this night, / Too late for sleep I fear, / Oh, how unbearably white / Is this curtain here. / Welcome! 2 The same voice and ga...»
«And cursing each other with brute / Passion, white-hot all through, / Neither one of us understood / How small the earth was for two, / That memory torments with spite, / Afflicting the most strong-hearted, / That one learns to plead in the night: / Where has my friend departed? / An...»
«A heavy shroud is placed onto the ground, / The bells are droning in a solemn show, / The spirit is again confused and troubled / By weary boredom of the Tsarskoe Selo. / Five years have passed. And all is dumb and dead here, / The world has reached the end, it seems. / The theme exhaust...»