Bella Akhmadulina
- April, by Lyudmila Purgina
(Here`re the girls — they wish to love...)
Bella Akhmadoulina (français)
- Avril, Christine Zeytounian-Beloüs
(Voici des filles : elles veulent de l’amour...)
«A grinning ape, an ass of stubborn air, / A long-horned goat, a bow-legged, grizzly bear, / Met one fine day, and soon their minds were set / To end the party with a fine quartet. / They have a viola, two violins, / A 'cello too, and music up to date, / For hall, the shady turf where cro...»
«My sweet black midget gave me many pleasures / And was so good in worshipping my feet, / I trusted him my gold and other treasures / To keep them in my gilded chest so neat. But day has come, and he began to grow / And grew so big that broke my lady nest. / I kissed his feet, but all I he...»
«Meine Sonne, du wirst mich / ja doch nicht wärmen, / du brennst zu schwach, / ich möchte es heißer! Mein Herz, du wirst mich / ja doch nicht hören, / du schlägst zu laut, / ich rufe zu schüchtern! Mein Glück, du wirsi mich / ja doch nicht trösten, / du lugst zu sanft, / i...»
«When partners can't agree / Their dealings come to naught / And trouble is their labor's only fruit. Once Crawfish, Swan and Pike / Set out to pull a loaded cart, / And all together settled in the traces; / They pulled with all their might, but still the cart refused to budge! / The loa...»