Her dry lips were tightly closed up.
Three thousand candles swayed.
Thus Princess Eudoxia lay atop
The scented, sapphire brocade.
A tearless mother, bowing down,
Prayed to her for her blind son,
And a voiceless hysteric thrashed about
Lapping for air on the run.
And he, who arrived from the south,
A hunchbacked old man with dark eyes,
Clenched the wall of the stairway, worn out,
Like the door into paradise.
Плотно сомкнуты губы сухие,
Жарко пламя трех тысяч свечей.
Так лежала княжна Евдокия
На душистой сапфирной парче.
И, согнувшись, бесслезно молилась
Ей о слепеньком мальчике мать,
И кликуша без голоса билась,
Воздух силясь губами поймать.
А пришедший из южного края
Черноглазый, горбатый старик,
Словно к двери небесного рая,
К потемневшей ступеньке приник.
«To shadowy hills a heavy shower / Has rolled through meadows — at once / The sky has cleared up, all over / There is fine brilliance on grass. / The storm has gone. The air now / Enhances sounds, is a balm; / How every leaf on every bough / Is turning soothed being calm! / An ev...»
«I’m glad to see you, light stars of the fluffy first snow! / On the dark ground you instantly melt one by one. / Other snowflakes quick and easy instead of you fly up: / Bees in the motionless air are whirling this way. / Winter will be before long; pressed ice will be screaming / U...»
«When I abandoned you (now I’m / Without a doubt true) / I was in love with you that time / As deep as I could do. To see you now I am not glad, / Reluctant am to tweet, / Your curious look, wide-eyed and sad, / I do not want to meet. In vain you keep on telling tales / Of home...»
«Crazed by my soul’s thirst / Through a dark land I staggered, / And a six-winged seraph / Halted me at a crossroads. / With fingers of dream / He touched my eye-pupils. / My eyes, prophetic, recoiled / Like a startled eaglet’s. / He touched my ears / And a thunderous clangour f...»