Marina Tsvetaeva
- Homesickening, by A. Z. Foreman
- Homesickness, by Paul Schmidt
- This grief for homeland, by Andrey Kneller
- Yearning for homeland!, by Katherine Pisarro-Grant
«It’s nice, if a bit slow, / This city of Rostov. / Main streets here bear the names / Of soldiers of great fame. / So restless, day and night / Its Garden Street’s packed tight. / But sidestreets stand quite still / With sound of poetry filled, / And that was why I thought / Th...»
«Flimsily dexterous / The droplets go — / The springlet sketchily / Darts to and fro... While I — / a rock that is well past its prime — / Feel helpless to guess one thing: / Just why / this inanimate little spring / Is moving faster than I.»
«A handclasp-that was all it took / To work these total transformations! / Old men are bowling hoops and, look, / Children complain of palpitations. Trains cross Sevan* from shore to shore, / At midday folk are lighting candles, / In water fish delight no more, / While I ... I love you t...»
«Wiping tears of hurt and childish sorrow, / Cotton dress you took—your best attire — / Always somepne straight from out a story, / To a world of fables you retired. Ever since, by dreams I’ve been bedevilled / That you’d left your fable-land domain, / That I had been married to a ...»