"I had been leaving coast of misty Albion."
How divine they are — this sadness and this height!
I see the dingy waves fall down and rise on,
The dingy firmament... I know that all by hart.
I see the youth that leaned upon the high mast's rope,
As beautiful as if he were by fairies born,
Wrapped in a coat. O! Let every virgin sob!
Cry, manhood! Cry, my misty Albion!
It's done! He is alone between these sky and flow!
There is a school for you who have been ‘gainst schools all!
And in a fatal heart, pierced with a star's arrow,
There enters in the king of fatal winds — Aeoll!
The roar of dingy waves is making the new ballad
Of wonderful his death from stars that libeled him on
Cry, Youth! Cry, Love! Cry, World! O, sob my dear Aellad!
Cry, little Ada! Cry, my misty Albion!
Я берег покидал туманный Альбиона…
Батюшков.
«Я берег покидал туманный Альбиона»…
Божественная высь! — Божественная грусть!
Я вижу тусклых вод взволнованное лоно
И тусклый небосвод, знакомый наизусть.
И, прислонённого к вольнолюбивой мачте,
Укутанного в плащ — прекрасного, как сон —
Я вижу юношу. — О плачьте, девы, плачьте!
Плачь, мужественность! — Плачь, туманный Альбион!
Свершилось! — Он один меж небом и водою!
Вот школа для тебя, о ненавистник школ!
И в роковую грудь, пронзённую звездою,
Царь роковых ветров врывается — Эол.
А рокот тусклых вод слагается в балладу
О том, как он погиб, звездою заклеймён…
Плачь, Юность! — Плачь, Любовь! — Плачь, Мир! — Рыдай, Эллада!
Плачь, крошка Ада! — Плачь, туманный Альбион!
«An even, hazy hum runs through the glade, / The rustling leaves to laze and drowse incline . . . / The roosters faraway in sun-specked shade, / Their vernal tidings sing, in crows benign. A quiet, hazy hum runs through the glade . . . / To succor me and send my soul repose, / I lie midst ...»
«Embroidered all in stars, my sail / Stands tall and white, both taut and frail; / Between the stars there glows the Face / Of Mother Mary, full of grace. What do I care if shores and sphere / Are fading, soon to disappear! / My soul’s replete, my soul’s austere, / And horns of fresh...»
«A lone white sail that glistens, gleams, / On seascape haze cerulean blue. / What distant realms attract his dreams? / In dear homeland what’s left to rue? The billows surge, the winds are shrieking, / The creaking mast writhes in distress, / Alas, not happiness he’s seeking, / Nor ...»
«(Mosaic in a Moscow Cathedral) Thy face flushed red ‘gainst Batu’s fires, / That gruesome glower in eyes gone dead, / The rust-gold wings where faith respires / In sacred trepidation spread. Before thy stare in the Time of the Dread / Passed fools in skufia, tattered, worn, / Forever...»