«to Valentina Serova Above our submarine's black nose she rises — / That Venus, which is like no other star! / We men, long missing out on girls' caresses, / Await her like a woman from afar. Like you, each day she rises slightly later, / And as the heavenly bodies rise and sink, / Some...»
«to Valentina Serova If God in his almighty power / Called me to heaven when I died / And I was asked, at heaven's gate, / What I should choose to take inside, I should not want, in paradise, / A tedious girl of honest worth. / I'd take with me the very same / With whom I'd shared this ...»
«to Valentina Serova Don't be angry if I write / Only just from time to time, / Writing now, and then again, / Waiting till another time. Letters come in many forms: / Some are sick and some are sad, / Brilliant just occasionally, / Far more often very bad. Letters leave a lot unsaid, ...»
«to Valentina Serova I remember two girls at the door in the night, / (Your shows ended later the year before last) / Two fans at the door of the theatre with me, / Who hoped for two words from your lips as you passed. / Yes, I was to go with you. And yet to them / I think you were kinder ...»