Boris Pasternak
- I should have known that this would happen..., by Rupert Moreton
I should have known that this would happen, /
When I embarked upon this act, /
That bloody lines they will entangle, /
They’ll strangle as they ...
- If I had known what would come later..., by Cecil Maurice Bowra
If I had known what would come later. /
When first my stage career began. /
The words will take to blood and slaughter. /
Go for the throat and ...
- If only, when I made my début..., by Babette Deutsch
If only, when I made my début, /
There might have been a way to tell /
That lines with blood in them can murder, /
That they can flood the throa...
- O had I known that it ends like this..., by Edwin Morgan
O had I known that it ends like this, /
the day I sprang to my debut, /
that lines and blood together kill. /
Chokethroat, strike us through and...
in portuguese Boris Pasternak (português)
- Ah, se eu antes soubera desta sina..., Haroldo de Campos, Boris Schnaiderman
Ah, se eu antes soubera desta sina, /
Quando me preparava para a estréia, /
Que há morte nestas linhas, — assassinas!, /
Como um golpe de sangue...