Poems by Mikhail Svetlov
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- Kakhovka ✍️️
«By a loophole, I sit in my prison, / Could see the blue of the heaven from there, / I feel sharp pain and a shame at the vision / Of heedless birds, freely playing in air. On my dry lips, I’ve not any prayers, / Nor any songs, that have ever to fly on, / But I remember the ancient batt...»
«I’m to believe, but with some fear, / For I haven’t tried it all before, / That every monk could be sincere / And live as he by altar swore; / That smiles and kisses of all people / Could be perfidious only once; / That, sometimes, they forgive the little / Mistakes, the others mak...»
«I know a rock in a highland's ravine, / On which only eagles might ever be seen, / But a black wooden cross o'er a precipice reigns, / It rots and it ages from tempests and rains. And many years have gone without any hints, / From times when it was seen from faraway hills. / And its every...»
«Yes, I like you, my knife of damask pledge, / My friend so bright and so cold, / A thoughtful Georgian forged you for his revenge, / A free Circassian then sharpened for a row. You had been trusted me by lily-like a hand — / A sign for memory — in time of separation, / And now no bl...»