I desire no love and no honor:
They intoxicate — no falling away!
I don't even desire an apple
Tempting — from hawker's tray..
Something drags behind me like chain,
Soon the thunder will sound in the sky...
How I desire —
Oh how I desire —
Very quietly simply to die!
Не хочу ни любви, ни почестей:
— Опьянительны. — Не падка!
Даже яблочка мне не хочется
— Соблазнительного — с лотка…
Что-то цепью за мной волочится,
Скоро громом начнёт греметь.
— Как мне хочется,
Как мне хочется —
Потихонечку умереть!
«Irreparably white the page. Long hours / Spent vainly at a desk. Of warmth and Nice / Smell the mimosa's tiny, yellow flowers. / Caught by the moon's white ray, a large bird flies. It's bedtime, and my long hair plaiting tightly — / As though it mattered!- out the window I, / No longer ...»
«My heart beats smoothly, steadily, / What are long years to me? / Under the Galernaya arch, / Our shadows, for eternity. Through half-closed eyelids, / I see, I see that you’re with me, / And forever held in your hand / Is my unopened fan. Because we stood together, / In that bless...»
«As a silver, delicate strand / Is woven in my dark tresses — / Only you, silent nightingale, / Can understand this torment. Your sensitive ear hears distance, / In the willow’s thin branches, / Ruffled, you gaze — without breathing — / If a strange song sounds. But a moment ag...»
«Gold dovecote by waters, / Tender and dazzlingly green; / A salt-breeze sweeps away / The gondola’s narrow wake. Such sensitive, strange eyes in the streets, / The bright toys in the shops: / A lion with a book, on a lace pillow, / A lion with a book, on a marble pillar. As in an anc...»