Without self-control
With complete meekness.
Light and soft is
Air over abyss.
Growing at once,
Like lightning — in time,
As if by order
There will be a blossom.
Answering stars,
With a snake hair...
Himself defenseless —
Not a flame-bearer!
He to me? I to him?
I'll try, I know.
Without intent
Into death I will go.
Без самовластия,
С полною кротостью.
Лёгкий и ласковый
Воздух над пропастью.
Выросший сразу,
— Молнией — в срок —
Как по приказу
Будет цветок.
Змееволосый,
Звёздоочитый…
Не смертоносный, —
Сам без защиты!
Он ли мне? Я — ему?
Знаю: польщусь,
Знаю: нечаянно
В смерть оступлюсь...
«The evening light has soaked with ancient gold / And gall the yellow hills. Like tawny fur / Grass rises shaggy in a ruddy blur; / Past fiery bushes metal waves unfold; / And enigmatic cliffs and boulders hold / Worn troughs that are the sea's chronologer. / In the winged twilight figure...»
«Here stood a sacred forest. Here the messenger / Wing-footed went, his touch upon the dumb glades leaving... / Upon the site of cities, nor stones, nor ruins heaving: / Now on burnt slopes but sheep in scattered patches stir. The mountain peaks: cut crowns! Across each bitten spur / T...»
«Above dark, rippled waters rises in retreat / Earth's heavy mass: the spines and rocky crests defying / The tortured steep in torrents of red rubble lying — / A lifeless land, its mourning reaches at my feet. Sad dreams and solemn dreams flow by me, bitter-sweet: / Earth ancient and obscu...»
«(From the Sonnet-cycle "Lunaria") Pure pearl of silence brooding on the sky, / Presider o'er conception, lamp of dreams, / Altar of nightly spells, of crystal gleams, / Queen of the waters where thou lov'st to lie, With what desire, where the long waves sigh, / Through my dark crucifixions...»