«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...»
«How I crave immortality, dying. / Clouds of dust come low from afar... / Let the naked red devils come flying, / With the cauldrons of foul-smelling tar. Playing tricks, crawl up to me, lurking, / Threats from books, all tattered and bent, / Only leave me my memory working / Just my mem...»
«He absolved me of sin and he quieted down. / The violet dusk blew out the flame. / The dark prayer stole fell spreading around / My shoulders, my head and my frame. Is this not the voice that said: “Maiden! arise…” / The heart beats fast, at a loss, / The touch of the hand as it abs...»