All in the Moscow is flooded with the verses,
Pierced through with awful spears of the rhymes.
Let we abide with them on different courses,
Let the full silence crowns over us,
Let muteness would be the secret symbol
Of them with you, though always seemed – with me,
But you unite self in a marriage, single,
With virgin silence, bitterest to be, –
That one, which eats the granite under ground,
And makes the future circle wholly filled,
And, in the night, suppressing loud sound,
Predicts your perish through your own ear.
Все в Москве пропитано стихами,
Рифмами проколото насквозь.
Пусть безмолвие царит над нами,
Пусть мы с рифмой поселимся врозь,
Пусть молчанье будет тайным знаком
Тех, кто с вами, а казался мной,
Вы же соединитесь тайным браком
С девственной горчайшей тишиной,
Что во тьме гранит подземный точит
И волшебный замыкает круг,
А в ночи над ухом смерть пророчит,
Заглушая самый громкий звук.
«When in my arms your slender beauty / Is locked, O you whom I adore, / And from my lips in gusts of rapture / Love's tender murmurs stintless pour, / In silence from my tight embraces / Your supple form you gently free, / And with a skeptic's smile, my dear one, / You mockingly reply t...»
«He was sitting by the river, among reeds / that peasants had been scything for their thatch. / And it was quiet there, and in his soul / it was quieter and stiller still. / He kicked off his boots and put / his feet into the water, and the water / began talking to him, not knowing / he...»
« ...I visited again / That corner of the earth where once I spent, / In placid exile, two unheeded years. / A decade's gone since then — and in my life / There have been many changes — in myself, / W...»
«The eremites of old, all of the world unspotted, / That they might reach the heights to holy saints allotted, / That they might fortify the heart against life's stress, / Composed such prayers as still comfort us and bless. / But none has ever stirred in me such deep emotions / As that th...»