Gavrila Derzhavin
- God, by M. Denner, I. Kutik and A. Wachtel
- God, by Alexander Levitsky
- O Thou Eternal One!, by John Bowring
«So they begin. With two years gone / From nurse to countless tunes they scuttle. / They chirp and whistle. Then comes on / The third year, and they start to prattle. So they begin to see and know. / In din of started turbines roaring / Mother seems not their mother now. / And you not yo...»
«Love is for some a heavy cross, / But in you there is no contortion, / The key to life's enigma is / The charm that is your secret portion. In spring rustling is heard again, / And news and truths that ripple running. / Your race has sprung from such a strain; / Like air, your mind is f...»
«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 kill a man, To play with such a tangled living, / Point-blank refusal Pd have made, — / So far away was my beginning / My first concern was s...»
«In spring before the dawn we see / Heaps in the kitchen garden, / As pagans for fertility / Their festal altars burden. The fresh-cut clods flame in my plot; / In steams at early morning, / And all the earth becomes red-hot / Just like an oven burning. I cast aside this shirt of mine /...»