«‘I have lost a delicate cameo / By the Neva’s bank, I don’t know where. / I’m grieving for my lovely Roman girl’ — / Almost in tears you came and said to me. But why, beautiful Georgian, / Disturb the dust of godlike tombs? / Another downy snowflake now / Has melted on your ...»
«Let us proclaim, brothers, the twilight of freedom, / The great twilight year. / Into the seething waters of night / An enormous forest of snares has been lowered. / You are rising on years of suffocation / O sun, judge, people. Let us proclaim the fateful burden / Which the people’s ...»
«You cannot breathe, the ground with maggots seethes, / And not a single star can speak; / But — God can see — there’s music up above us: / The station trembles with Aonian song, / And ripped in shreds with locomotive whistles / The screeching air resolves again. The enormous park â€...»
«I have come back to my city, familiar to the point of tears, / To the blood in my veins, to my childhood’s swollen tonsils. / You have come back here — so swallow up quickly / The cod-liver-oil of the Leningrad river-lamps: Quickly make up your mind to the short December day / When the ...»