If your soul was born with wings
What does a hut mean or a palace of kings!
What — Genghis Khan, and what — a horde!
I have two foes in the whole world,
They are two twins in one image united:
Hunger of hungry and glut of glutted.
Если душа родилась крылатой —
Что ей хоромы и что ей хаты!
Что Чингисхан ей — и что — Орда!
Два на миру у меня врага,
Два близнеца, неразрывно-слитых:
Голод голодных — и сытость сытых!
«Snow, snow the whole world over, / Sweeping it, end to end. / The candle burned on the table, / the candle burned. Like a crowd of summer midges / flying to the flame, / droves of snowflakes swarmed / against the window pane. Snow-blasts moulded circles, / arrows on the glass. / Th...»
«Here, in my Moscow – cupolas gleaming! / Here, in my Moscow – great bells ringing! / And the tombs here, facing, / Of Tsarinas, and the Tsars. You’ll not know, at dawn in the Kremlin, / It’s easiest to breathe – in this world, I mean! / You’ll not know, at dawn in the Kremlin ...»
«You came — / determined, / because I was large, / because I was roaring, / but on close inspection / you saw a mere boy. / You seized / and snatched away my heart / and began / to play with it — / like a girl with a bouncing ball. / And before this miracle / every woman /...»
«Wait for me, I will return. / Wait for all you’re worth. / Wait, when sulphurous rains they burn / Snuffing out all mirth, / Wait, as drifting snow it drops, / Wait, when heat’s too much. / Wait, when wait for others stops, / Past has lost its clutch. / Wait, when from that dista...»