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!
«Yes, I know, we're not a pair, / In some other land I was born, / What I like is not the guitar / But the wild blows of a horn. Not to gowns and tails I deliver / My best poems in luxurious halls, / I would rather read them to a river, / To the clouds and waterfalls. And I love, like i...»
«Be blessed the finest wine that 's loving us, / And the good bread that goes for us to a roaster, / And the hot woman that will first harass / But finally allow us to test her. Yet, what we'll do with Phoebus' chariot / That conveys Sun, harnessed with its six horses, / With dawn cool and...»
«No word, keep secret and withhold / Your feelings and your dreams untold — / But in your deepest soul of all / Permit their rising and their fall / Like stars that shine at night, unheard; / Just contemplate them — and no word. / How can the soul itself impart? / How can anot...»
«Seal thou thy lips, to none impart / The secret dreams that fill thy heart. / Within it let them blaze and die / As do the silent stars on high / When o'er the earth night's shadows stray — / Delight in them — and silent stay. / Thy sentiments to none confide; / From those ab...»