One mirror must mirror another;
each mirror mismirrors the other.
Not that evil cannot be defeated,
only that we cannot escape defeat;
I believe in the ash left behind by the fire;
not in the music that burned my life.
Друг друга отражают зеркала,
Взаимно искажая отраженья.
Я верю не в непобедимость зла,
А только в неизбежность пораженья.
Не в музыку, что жизнь мою сожгла,
А в пепел, что остался от сожженья.
«My little almond tree / Is gay with gleaming bloom, / My heart unwillingly / Puts forth its buds of gloom. The bloom will leave the tree, / The fruit, unbidden, grow. / And the green boughs will be / By bitter loads brought low.»
«A well, and the cherry trees swaying / Where bare girlish feet trod the fruit; / Nearby the damp imprint betraying / The stamp of a heavy nailed boot. Stilled now is the place of their meeting, / But nothing the silence avails: / In my brain passion's echo repeating / Their whispers—t...»
«Oh, the ricks, the ricks, / In the meadows lying, / The eye cannot count / You, for all its trying. Oh, the ricks, the ricks, / In the green morasses, / What do you guard: / You heaped, heavy masses? Pray, behold us, good sir: / We were once bright flowers; / But the sharp scythe f...»
«Believe me not, dear, when in hours of anguish / I say my love for thee exists no more. / At ebb of tide, think not the sea is faithless; / It will return with love unto the shore. E'en now I pine for thee with old-time passion, / And place my freedom in thy hands once more. / Already, wi...»