Boris Pasternak
- First Snow, by Rupert Moreton
Boris Pasternak (français)
- La premier neige, Michel Aucouturier
«Jews do not plough or harvest / Jews make their living by bargains / Jews are deceitful hucksters / Jews speak in a weird jargon. They are nasty people, those Jews / And as soldiers they are no use: / While Ivan is fighting the war, / Abe is stashing cash in the store. I have heard thi...»
«Towards light-blue enamel air, / Which April easily created / The birches raised their branches, bare / And into twilight slowly faded. An ornament, so fine and dainty / Like lacework in a skillful pattern, / Seemed a design, precisely painted / On an exquisite china platter. As if an ...»
«One summer day, a monkey / A goat, a bear, and / A donkey / Got the idea to perform as a quartet. / They got a cello, violins, and music scores / And settled comfortably outdoors — / To charm the audience with gentle minuets. / They struck the chords with ample force, and yet / No ...»
«While digging through a heap of muck, / By chance, a village rooster plucked / A shiny pearl. He looked at it and wondered / "What is the use of it? And why is it so pricey? / This pearl is nothing but a silly bead! / Pearl barley pleases me much more indeed! / Its grains may not have vi...»