The woods have turned green,
The pond has turned green.
And green frogs
Croak their songs.
A fir-tree--a sheaf of green candles,
Moss--a green carpet.
And a green grasshopper
Conducts the song...
Above a house's green roof
A green oak sleeps,
And two green gnomes
Sit between its chimneys.
After breaking a green leaf,
The younger gnome whispers:
"You see, that red-haired student
In the window?
Why isn't he green?
It's May already...May!"
The older gnome yawns drowsily:
"Why don't you just shut up?"
Зеленеют все опушки,
Зеленеет пруд.
А зеленые лягушки
Песенку поют.
Елка - сноп зеленых свечек,
Мох - зеленый пол.
И зелененький кузнечик
Песенку завел...
Над зеленой крышей дома
Спит зеленый дуб.
Два зелененькие гнома
Сели между труб.
И, сорвав зеленый листик,
Шепчет младший гном:
"Видишь? рыжий гимназистик
Ходит под окном.
Отчего он не зеленый?
Май теперь ведь... май!"
Старший гном зевает сонно:
"Цыц! не приставай".
«I trusted, I thought and the light for me shone at last. / For ever Creator let fate have my soul, forever. / I am sold and alone! My god went away so fast. / My buyer is looking at me – he is mocking and clever. My Yesterday rushes at me like a big flying hill / And like an abyss before ...»
«I like things which are calm and forlorn: / Lights that shine through the stream's foggy gloom, / The long-dying sunset's poverty, / The October chrysanthemum bloom, The triteness of "Songs Without Words", / Quiet graves with no names at their side — / All that Annensky avidly loved, / ...»
«Here is reward for all my sins, / This triumph and disgrace: / A poem suddenly begins / From nothing, from no place. The words come magically half-dressed, / Wearing haphazard clothes, / Like roses falling on my chest... / — And you, toss me a rose! No, throw it past that cloud that ...»
«Upon fresh ground falls and melts / At once unnoticed a thin film. / The harsh and chilly spring / The ripened buds does kill. / Sight of early death is so horrid / That I can't look at God's creation, and am riven / With sadness, to which king David / Millenia of life has given.»