Envy not your friend if hes more handsome,
More intelligent or wealthier than you.
Let his merits and let his successes
Not tear up the laces on your shoe.
Move along your way without a care,
Smile still broader out of his success!
Maybe hell face darkness and despair
And your porch will be adorned with bliss!
Laugh with him, and cry with his distresses:
Feel him with your heart, and for all time!
Do not block your friend from his successes:
Its a sin to do so! Truly, its a crime!
Не завидуй другу, если друг богаче,
Если он красивей, если он умней.
Пусть его достатки, пусть его удачи
У твоих сандалий не сотрут ремней…
Двигайся бодрее по своей дороге,
Улыбайся шире от его удач:
Может быть, блаженство — на твоём пороге,
А его, быть может, ждут нужда и плач.
Плачь его слезою! смейся шумным смехом!
Чувствуй полным сердцем вдоль и поперёк!
Не препятствуй другу ликовать успехом:
Это — преступленье! Это — сверхпорок!
«O love! O love! In the convulsions, in the coffin, / I'll be on guard — entice — worry — and tear. / Not in the snow mound of the coffin, nor a snow mound / Of cloud, I will part with you, O my dear. And not for this are given to me gorgeous / Two wings that weight upon my heart wou...»
«Either at dawn or at dusk, I will die, but on which / One of the two - can't be told from the orders, I know. / Ah, could it be that my torch could go out twice again! / At the same time at dusk and at dawn it would go! Heaven's daughter! With a full apron of roses! Not a sprout / Violatin...»
«Happy New Year, swan demesne! / Ruins so glorious! / Happy New Year — in foreign lands — / Knapsack-bearing warriors! Red pursuit, mouth foaming, / Not caught up, will dance, / Happy New Year — homeland, / Beaten in the race! The whole Earth sings with a toast song / To the ...»
«1 To be your light-haired little fellow — / Oh, through all years! — / To drape a student behind your dusty purple / In cloak severe. To catch through people's density your sigh / That life does give / With soul that lives with your breath, like a cloak / With blowing wind. More...»