Anna Akhmatova
- All year long you are close to me..., by Ilya Shambat
- All year long, you have always been near me..., by Andrey Kneller
«As people sleep, my dear, let’s go to the shady garden. / As people sleep, only on us the stars are gazing. / But they can neither see us under the branching trees / Nor hear us — only the single nightingale hears... / But even he doesn’t hear — his song’s too loud; / The only th...»
«The roiling clouds were thrilling in the scarlet luster, / The evening fields were luxuriant and moist, / And for the last time, at the third pass the driver / Disappeared, the team raising no dust. No habitations were seen in the broad view. / Hearth and song far off — no surprise! / A...»
«Oh see the first lily of the valley! / From under the snow it asks only for / The sun’s beams; virgin luxury / In your fresh and fragrant pure odor! Bright as the first ray of spring! / What dreams descend upon it! / How enchantingly you betoken / How wildly spring will soon erupt! F...»
«It sounded above the clear river, / It rang out in the fading meadow, / It swept above the silent grove, / It lit up the opposite shore. Into the distant twilight / The river wound to the west. / Clouds, losing their gold hems, / Drifted like billows of smoke. From the hillock — firs...»