Sergey Esenin
- A Song About Bread, by Anton Yakovlev
Here it is, the harsh brutality, /
The full meaning of human suffering! /
The sickle cuts the heavy ears of wheat /
The way they slit throats of...
- A song about grain, by Merrill Sparks and Vladimir Markov
Here you have the cruelty that’s hardest. /
Its sole sense is to give people pain. /
And like cutting swans below the gullet, /
The scythe cuts ...
- Song about Bread, by Don Mager
This gives sense to our human life of pain /
In the course of its unmitigated plight. /
The sickle cuts the heavy ears of grain, /
Just as it cu...
in german Sergei Jessenin (deutsch)
- Das Lied vom Getreide, Eric Boerner
Die wilde Grausamkeit kommt neu zu Ehren, /
Wo sich der ganze Sinn — im Menschenleiden fand! /
Die Sichel schneidet ab die fetten Ähren, /
Wie m...