From Choix de fables de La Fontaine illustrées par un groupe des meilleurs artistes de Tokyo. Sous la dir. de Pierre Barboutau; 1894
An illustration of the fable of the Fox and the Crow from Kalila and Dimna, otherwise known as the fables of Bidpai. The story is familiar in the West as one of Aesop's fables.
3th or 14th century?
by Nadezhda Stroganova, 1967
«Walker, you look like me, / Eyes cast down. / I once lowered them — too! / Passer-by, wait! Read — when you have gathered / A bouquet of poppies — / That I was called Marina / And how old I was. Do not think that this is — a grave, / That I will appear, scary... / I too w...»
«Veins filled with sun — not blood — / On my hand, brown so soon. / I am at one with my great love / To own my soul. I am waiting for a grasshopper, I count to a hundred, / Chewing a stalk's spine... / — Strange to feel so strongly and so simply / The fleetingness of life — and»
«I am defiantly wearing his ring / — Yes, in Eternity — as wife, not on paper. — / His overly narrow face — / Like a sword. His mute mouth, angles down, / Painfully gorgeous eyebrows. / In his face tragically merged / Two ancient blood lines. He is thin like first fragile branc...»
«1. The August day was slowly melting / Into the golden afternoon dust. / A few rattling trams, / And people passing. Absent-mindedly, as if without a goal, / I took a quiet lane. / And — I remember — the soft pealing / Of bells. I envision your pose / I decide everything on the...»