Seated at a table, flighty thoughts,
Shoulders spread, inflated chest,
I pronounced empty speeches,
Still as a statue and just as loved.
Легкомысленные речи
За столом произносив,
Я сидел, раскинув плечи,
Неподвижен и красив.
«All as before: against the dining-room windows / Beats the scattered windswept snow, / And I have not changed either, / But a man came to me. I asked: "What do you want?" / He replied: "To be with you in Hell." / I laughed: "Oh, you'll foredoom / Us both to disaster." But lifting h...»
«I sometimes feel a kind of weary languor: / The clock chime never ceasing in my ears, / And far away the dying thunder's clangour. / I seem to hear the plaintive moans and fears / Of captive and unrecognisable voices... / Some kind of secret circle closes in, / But through the endl...»
«Your paintings still before mine eyes are floating, / Your blessed works, that ever with me stay: / The ever-autumn lindens' gilded coating, / The blue of water made by you today. I close my eyes, so delicately drowsy, / And into your bright gardens I am led... / I search for any tra...»
«My love, this dark and sombre separation / Is ours to bear as equals, it would seem. / Weep not — give me your hand in glad elation, / And promise me you'll visit in a dream. / For you and I are like two mountains parted... / No meeting place on earth can now be ours. / I only ho...»