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.
«In a foreign land in an old foreign house / Her portrait kings on the wall, / Her, dying, like a beggar woman, on straw, / In torments for which there is no name. But here in the portrait she's complete, as before, / She rich, she's young, / She's in her luxurious green dress, / In whic...»
«I remain with what was not fully said, / With what was not fully sung, not played out, / Not written to the end, in a secret society, / In the quiet fellowship of the unsuccessful, / Who lived in rustling pages / And now talk in whispers. / They even forewarned us in youth, / But we di...»
«Eagles and butterflies (and some other things) / Still live. Let's leave them in peace. / And clouds. Don't disturb them either. / Let there be you and I, two umbrellas and the rain. / And if everything gets broken, there'll be nothing, / And people have broken so much inside.»
«I love or I don't — despair comes easily to me: / Though I may never be yours, / Nonetheless there's such tenderness at times / In your eyes, as though I am loved. Not by me you'll live, not by me you'll suffer, / And I will pass like the shadow of clouds; / But you will never forget me...»