I had a bird in my hand
but my bird has flown.
I held a bird in my hand
but am now all alone.
My small bird has left me
full of anger and rage;
my blue bird has left me
alone in a cage.
Небольшая синица была в руках,
небольшая была синица,
небольшая синяя птица.
Улетела, оставив меня в дураках.
Улетела, оставив меня одного
в изумленьи, печали и гневе,
не оставив мне ничего, ничего,
и теперь — с журавлями в небе.
«Wait for me and I'll return, / Only please, do wait. / Wait when yellow autumn storm / Takes your joy away. / Wait while snow downfall, / Wait while summer heat. / Wait when no one at all / Was waiting, as you did. / Wait when letter faraway / Wouldn't come to you. / Wait when ev...»
«For three long months continues the bombardment. / The bloodstained Malakhov withstands it still. / The hoarse-voiced drum drives on the British redcoats. / Once more they throw themselves against the hill! But by the far Pacific on Kamchatka / The fortress slumbers on in peace profound. / ...»
«Not long ago, when I was at a dinner, / I heard a toast — and here I write it down. "I had a dream" the speaker said to us / "That I had died, and yet I was not dead / And there before me lay a final road / On which I walked, with neither food nor fire. / An empty plain stretched out i...»
«It is as if my friends are marching / And I along with them, in time, / Through many different streets they're passing, / Those nearest, dearest friends of mine. They are not those with whom I started / And learned my letters, in my place, / Nor those with whom I shaved moustaches / Sti...»