My sweet black midget gave me many pleasures
And was so good in worshipping my feet,
I trusted him my gold and other treasures
To keep them in my gilded chest so neat.
But day has come, and he began to grow
And grew so big that broke my lady nest.
I kissed his feet, but all I heard was "No!"
He walked away and took with him my chest.
Мой черный карлик целовал мне ножки,
Он был всегда так ловок и так мил!..
Мои браслетки, кольца, серьги, брошки
Он убирал и в сундучке хранил.
Но в черный день печали и тревоги
Мой карлик вдруг поднялся и подрос...
Вотще ему я целовала ноги —
И сам ушел, и сундучок унес!
«(fragment) Over my street for many-many years, / sound the steps — my friends leave me forever. / The slow exodus of all my dear friends / takes from the dark by windows its favor. / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / Oh, constant loneliness, how hard are manners yours! / ...»
«1 I'm alone on the path just taken; / Glittering, it stretches through the fog; / Quiet night. All harkens to the Maker, / And two stars begin a dialogue. 2 It is grand and solemn in the heavens! / In the azure radiance Earth rests... / Why then does my heart seem so heavy? / Do I ho...»
«We meet again, and all the bygone / Is brightening up my aging soul; / I summon up the golden time, and / My heart is ever so consoled… Like by the end of autumn, sometimes, / There happen days, there is an hour / When, with a sudden breath of springtime, / A feeling gets the spirit r...»
«Fog filled the morning sky, gray-haired this morning, / Snowy the saddened fields, many times trodden. / Though you resent, feel your past, unreturning: / Faces you shall recall, long since forgotten. You shall recall the talks, long, full of passion, / Glances, so eager, so shy and so sub...»