Others — with eyes or with face full of light,
And I converse with wind in the night.
Not with that Italian
Zephyr oh-so-young —
Russian, blow-through,
A good one, a wide one!
Others with all flesh are lost in the flesh,
From dried out lips swallow the breath...
And I - arms wide open — like tetanus — stall
So that the Russian wind blow out my soul!
Others — o tangles tender and strong!
No, Aeolus is doing us wrong.
Perhaps you won't melt! It's just one family
As if I am not a woman truly.
Другие — с очами и с личиком светлым,
А я-то ночами беседую с ветром.
Не с тем — италийским
Зефиром младым, —
С хорошим, с широким,
Российским, сквозным!
Другие всей плотью по плоти плутают,
Из уст пересохших — дыханье глотают…
А я — руки настежь! — застыла — столбняк!
Чтоб выдул мне душу — российский сквозняк!
Другие — о, нежные, цепкие путы!
Нет, с нами Эол обращается круто.
— Небось, не растаешь! Одна — мол — семья! —
Как будто и вправду — не женщина я!
«Cease thy song, nightingale, / Here before my window! / Fly away, nightingale, / To my village grove. / And there light on the window / Of my sweetheart-love. / Sing to her there a song / Of my anguish, pain. / Say I wither, I die, / Here away from my lass, / As in autumn cold ra...»
«At my cheerless table / I a-musing sit: / How is one to be / In the world alone? / I, a stalwart youth, / Have no wife, no mate; / I, a stalwart youth, / Want a loving friend. / Want a harrow, share; / Want a kindly hearth; / Want a barn well-stocked, / And a good plo...»
«Pull, my gray one, pull now! / Turning o’er the black clods, / Mother-earth will burnish / White the iron ploughshare. / / Blushing dawn, the fair one, / Lo! on the bright horizon; / From the waking woodland / Comes the sun in glory. / / Joyous rolls the ploughland! / ...»
«When from thy shame, degrading, dark, I drew / Thy fallen spirit out with words of flame; / And thou, with wringing hands, in anguish deep, / Didst curse the sin that compassed thee about; / When thou didst lash thy conscience, late and dull, / With story of thy past, confessing all ...»