«We numbered many in the ship, / Some spread the sails, some pulled, together, / The mighty oars; 'twas placid weather. / The rudder in his steady grip, / Our helmsman silently was steering / The heavy galley through the sea, / While I, from doubts and sorrows free, / Sang to the crew.....»
«To A. M. Petrova It was for your sake, was it not, / That Suzdal and Moscow towns / Gathered the land in great domains / And garnered coffers abrim with gold, / Heaping your dowry high with store / And raising you as a royal maid / In your cramped but gilded halls? It was for your sake...»
«(The model of disintegration of the old army) To gallop in grand review / With a cockade on the head, / In melted Petrograd, / In revolutionary Moscow. In delirium and in drunken fervor / To surrender to the spirited game, / To stand up for the Motherland — in March, / For the Bolshe...»
«There was no bourgeoisie, the need was not for it: / For the revolution they needed capitalism, / So they could make it in the name of a proletariat. / They slapped it together out of shopkeepers, / Out of merchants, landowners, cadets, and midwives. / They mixed it with the bl...»