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!
«Come, Jim, give me your paw for luck, / I swear i've never seen one like it. / Let's go, the two of us, and bark / Up the moon when Nature's silent. Come, Jim, give me your pow for luck. / Stop licking me, pet, and please do / At least heed this advice i'm giving. / Of life you havent g...»
«Deep in the desert's misery, / far in the fury of the sand, / there stands the awesome Upas Tree / lone watchman of a lifeless land. The wilderness, a world of thirst, / in wrath engendered it and filled / its every root, every accursed / grey leafstalk with a sap that killed. Dissolvi...»
«Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover; / Flying snow is set alight / By the moon whose form they cover; / Blurred the heavens, blurred the night. / On and on our coach advances, / Little bell goes din-din-din... / Round are vast, unknown expanses; / Terror, terror is within. — Fas...»
«Oh when will we go back to Russia? Oh, Hamlet of east, tell me when. / In fog and on foot we will travel, a blistering cold there’ll be then, / It won’t be triumphal, with horses, on foot we will go – no acclaim, / But you may be sure, I can promise, we’ll get to the end, all the same....»