«Her dry lips were tightly closed up. / Three thousand candles swayed. / Thus Princess Eudoxia lay atop / The scented, sapphire brocade. A tearless mother, bowing down, / Prayed to her for her blind son, / And a voiceless hysteric thrashed about / Lapping for air on the run. And he, who...»
«My youth was hard to endure. / With so much sorrow to bear. / How can a soul this poor / Be returned to You rich and fair? / A song of praise, long and elegant, / The flattering fate sings fervent. / Lord, Almighty! I’m negligent, / Always Your miserly servant. / Not a rose, not a ...»
«Sunlight filled the room with splendor, / Yellow wafting dust fell near. / I woke up and I remembered / That today’s your name day, dear. / For this reason, blizzard-swept / Distances turned warm and grand / And I, in sleeplessness, have slept / Like a pleased communicant.»
«You have come to comfort me, my dear, / The most gentle, the most kind and modest… / But bedridden, I can’t rise, I fear, / And the window’s covered with a lattice. You assumed that I was long expired, / And you brought a meager little wreath. / O, how painfully I’m wounded with e...»