«1 It's time!... Oh, to forget Zhukovsky Street, / The white-walled house, the city's roofs and arches, / Its zoo-like din.... Away! Away to meet / The winking mushrooms and the nodding birches / Of Moscow's princely, sparkling, dewy fall, / The skies remote, the leaves and grasses rustlin...»
«From the cycle NORTHERN ELEGIES One's memories live long and have three epochs. / The first is close, like yesterday.... Within / Its hallowed bower the soul enjoys repose, / And in its shade the body refuge finds.... / The tears stream still, the peals of laughter linger, / The spot of i...»
«From a Wayfarer's Letters II I have treated my heart with a ruthless abandon / In poetry, in friendship, in grief and in passion. / Forgive me, my darling. Let bygones be bygones. / I suffer. Yet all this is joy in its fashion. / / And even my black fits of burning depression, / The s...»
«From a Wayfarer's Letters V And this I solemnly declare: / That I have lived no worthless year, / Nor trodden any road for naught, / Nor closed any mind to any thought, / Nor closed my ears to any news, / Nor given gifts where none were due. / Neither do I my Love regret, / Deceived ...»