«Wir Lebenden spüren den Boden nicht mehr, / Wir reden, dass uns auf zehn Schritt keiner hört, Doch wo wir noch Sprechen vernehmen, — / Betrifft's den Gebirgler im Kreml. Seine Finger sind dick und, wie Würmer, so fett, / Und Zentnergewichte wiegt's Wort, das er fällt, Sein Schnauzbart...»
«You're again with me, my girl-friend autumn. / Inn. Annensky 2 Let somebody else rest by southern sea, / Enjoying the paradise land, / It's northerly here, and fall of this year, / I chose to be my girl-friend. I've carried here the memory sure / Of my last rejecting a date — / The ...»
«Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. / Genesis Holy Lot was a-going behind God's angel, / He seemed huge and bright on a hill, huge and black. / But the heart of his wife whispered stronger and stranger: / "It's not very late, you have time to look back / At these ...»
«Many items, maybe, will be proud / To be sung by my poetic voice: / That is, wordless, roaring around, / Or eroding stones underground, / Or forcing its way through smoke’s coils. / And I want to take into account / Fire, wind and water, so far… / That is why my dreams, as I have ...»