Pray before sleep,
That you don’t wake up famous.
Молитесь на ночь, чтобы вам
Вдруг не проснуться знаменитым.
«Franz Josef Land / In a freezing sea / Is where I’ll forget / You abandoned me. Rot! I’m aware / On those Polar nights / You’ll shimmer there / In the Northern Lights And the Polar dawns / Will ripple as those / Long fingers of yours / Spread over the floes. Thrifty with l...»
«Gentle in friendship, in argument vehement, / It seems only yesterday I saw you thus / Sitting here talking with Boris Levin** / Till dawn, there was so much to discuss. I see you addressing a general meeting / Of the club with a speech that’s tense and terse, / Winning the Diamond Cup,...»
«Over Moscow where the Moskva River flows, / When the hostile bombers came at night, / When for watches in the hush of dark we rose, / Then our flashlights we would always light. A sentry round the year, / From sundown till the light, / My flashlight, my companion dear, / Burn bright, bu...»
«Black cross on the Italian’s bosom, / With no chasing, or pattern, or gloss on, / By poor family handed down, / Heirloom worn by the only son. Young and carefree native of Napoli, / Why come here to die so unhappily? / What strange restlessness drove you away / From the shores of that...»