Osip Mandelshtam
- Heaviness, tenderness — sisters — your marks are the same..., by Peter France
- Sisters heaviness and tenderness..., by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky
«My spirit has survived the gloom of contradictions. / My mind has not succumbed in lethal bouts with Fate. / I love all reveries, and holding dear all speeches / To all the Gods my verse I dedicate. To Hecate I prayed as did I to Astarte, / While sacrifical blood of victims I did shed. / ...»
«Among the worlds, while planets flicker above / I keep repeating the name of One Star in the universe… / Not because I am madly in love / But because the others bore me to death. If I can’t endure doubt, / I beg only Her to answer / Not because She brings light, / But because with...»
«Everything here will outlive me, / Even the houses of the stare / And this air I breathe, the spring air, / Ending its flight across the sea. / / Unearthly invincibility… / The voice of eternity is calling, / And the light moon’s light is falling / Over the blossoming cherry-tre...»
«Más que yo vivirá lo que aquí vive, / Hasta los nidos de los estorninos, / Y este aire migratorio que cruzó, / Aire primaveral, la mar en vuelo. La voz eternidad de allá nos llama, / Del más allá con su invencible fuerza, / Y por encima del cerezo en flor, / La luz lunar menguand...»