In a world where most people
are hunched and sweaty
I know only one person
equal to me in strength.
In a world where there is
so much to want
I know only one person
equal to me in power.
In a world where mould
and ivy cover everything
I know only one person — you —
who equals me in spirit.
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В мире, где всяк
Сгорблен и взмылен,
Знаю — один
Мне равносилен.
В мире, где столь
Многого хощем,
Знаю — один
Мне равномощен.
В мире, где всё —
Плесень и плющ,
Знаю: один
Ты — равносущ
Мне.
«Lily, Lily! I am sighing / With despair and hopeless woe. / I am tortured, I am dying, / And my soul has lost its glow, / But my love evoked no pity: / You consider me pathetic. / Keep on laughing: you are pretty / Even when unsympathetic. »
«Why feed the early signs of boredom / With sinister and dismal thought, / And wait for separation, burdened / With sorrow, lonesome and distraught? / The day of grief is close at hand! / You’ll stand, alone, out in the sun, / And try to bring back once again / These days, but they wi...»
«I’ve lived to see desire vanish, / With hope I’ve slowly come to part, / And I am left with only anguish, / The fruit of emptiness at heart. / Under the storms of merciless fate, / My worn and withered garland lies — / In sadness, lonesome, I await: / How far away is my demise? /...»
«I will be silenced soon!.. If on the tragic day, / The strings would pensively begin to play; / If adolescents, sitting quietly, immersed, / Began to marvel at my passion’s madness; / If only you, surrendering to sadness, / In silence mumbled melancholy verse / And loved the way my ard...»