Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya-Teffi
- Before A Map Of Russia, by Robert Chandler
(In a strange house, in a far away land...) - Before the map of Russia, by Albert C. Todd
(In a foreign land in an old foreign house...)
«“You are with me once more, Autumn my friend!” / Annensky Let any, who will, still bask in the south / On the paradisal sand, / It’s northerly here — and this year of the north / Autumn will be my friend. I’ll live, in a dream, in a stranger’s house / Where perhaps I have di...»
«So again we triumph! / Again we do not come! / Our speeches silent, / Our words, dumb. / Our eyes that have not met / Again, are lost; / And only tears forget / The grip of frost. / A wild-rose bush near Moscow / Knows something of / This pain that will be called / Immortal lov...»
«Black and enduring seperation / I share equally with you. / Why weep? Give me your hand, / Promise me you will come again. / You and I are like high / Mountains and we can’t move closer. / Just send me word / At midnight sometime through the stars.»
«It is your lynx eyes, Asia, / That spied something in me, / Teased it out, occult / And born of stillness, / Oppessive and difficult / Like the noon heat in Termez. / As though pre-memory’s years / Flowed like lava into the mind... / As if I were drinking my own tears / From a st...»