We have gone mad from endless jubilation
Wine in the morning, hangover at night.
Your blush, oh drunken plague without respite,
How to contain the needless celebration?
Hand-shaking ceremonial and tortuous
And kisses on the street all through the night
When river's waves grow heavy with delight
And in the night the headlights burn like torches.
Like for a fairy wolf we wait for death
And he will be the first to die, I fear,
That has a startling mouth that's red with fear
And hair that falls upon the eyes like sheathe.
От легкой жизни мы сошли с ума:
С утра вино, а вечером похмелье.
Как удержать напрасное веселье,
Румянец твой, о нежная чума?
В пожатьи рук мучительный обряд,
На улицах ночные поцелуи,
Когда речные тяжелеют струи
И фонари, как факелы, горят.
Мы смерти ждем, как сказочного волна,
Но я боюсь, что раньше всех умрет
Тот, у кого тревожно-красный рот
И на глаза спадающая челка.
«Only one thing torments my delirium: / how certain sharp lines go on for ever, / and a bell rings and rings and rings / like a clock marking off eternity. Just so, after death, / eyes stare into darkness / (the agonized hope of resurrection) / trying to see familiar visions. But there ...»
«In my delirium, only the endlessness / Of some sharp lines plagues me, / And the bell incessantly tolls / As a clock, striking eternity. It seems to me, that after death it’s how, / With an agonising hope of resurrection, / The eyes get fixed on the surrounding murk, / Seeking the old...»
«Birth of the word is by agony molded, / Through earthly life it is quietly going, / It is a stranger, which drinks from the golden / Pitcher the drops of the savages’ mourning. Go to Nature! The Nature is hostile, / All here is frightening, all is in fullness, / There are the trumpets...»
«In the days when the God eternal / Was declining face to the new world, / By the Word they stopped the sun’s inferno, / And destroyed the towns by the Word. And an eagle was falling at the ground, / Stars were backing to the moon in fright, / If, as made from orange flames a cloud, / ...»