Pray before sleep,
That you don’t wake up famous.
Молитесь на ночь, чтобы вам
Вдруг не проснуться знаменитым.
«Over the wooded banks, / In the hour of evening quiet, / Under the tents are song and bustle / And the fires are scattered. Thee I greet, O happy race ! / I recognize thy blazes, / I myself at other times / These tents would have followed. With the early rays to-morrow / Shall disapp...»
«You are kissed, bewitched, / Somewhen wed to the wind in the field you are, / You"re as if chained all over and cold as steel, / You are my precious gem, you are my sweetheart. / / Neither cheerful, nor disconsolate, / As if an angel who dropped from the dark night sky, / You are eith...»
«A tomboy, she`s curly and brisk, / A bright butterfly as in summer. / The meaningless words from her lips / Are full of a genuine glamour. / / You can be her king for a day, / She can"t bear the shackles of habits. / She"ll slip out at once as a snake, / Take wing and be off as a pa...»
«Ananas au champagne! Ananas au champagne! / It`s improbably tasteful, and sparkling, and piquant! / I`m in something Norwegian. In all Spanish dressed up! / In a transport of joy I take up my pen briskly! Now the biplanes` rattle! Now the races of cars! / Now a wind-whizz of trains! The ice...»