«I shall saddle my horse. / And on my fast horse / I shall gallop and fly, / Than a hawk more light, / Across fields, over sea. / To lands far away. / I shall summon and find / My lost youth again. / I’ll be strong, I’ll be great / In the youth once mine. / And again I shall p...»
«Patriot I am, but in so strange a fashion / No reasons of the mind must rule this passion. / Russia’s blood-purchased glory. / The calm that best her haughty trust beseems. / Her dark and ancient day of hallowed story: / — ’Tis none of these that prompts my happier dreams. I love he...»
«I have a bird of paradise; / Upon a springing cypress-tree / She sits for hours while daylight flies. / And not a song by day sings she. / Her back is of celestial blue. / Her head is purple; flaming dye / Upon her wings, of golden hue / Like dawn’s reflection in the sky. / Only wh...»
«In the night a golden cloudlet straying / Slumbered on a crag’s breast, huge and burly; / Rose the damsel in the morning early, / Gaily fled through heaven’s azure, playing. But upon the wrinkled rock remaining / Faintly still a trace of brightness wandered: / Lone the giant stood, an...»