Stars little stars, you're so high and so clear!
What have you got in you, so fascinating?
Stars, deep in thought, so discreet you appear,
What is the power that makes you so tempting?
Stars, little stars, you're so dense and so solid!
What is it that makes you so great and alluring?
How can you, heavenly bodies, afford it:
Stirring a thirst and desire for learning?
Why, as you shine, are you nice and inviting
Into your wide open arms, on the instant?
Pleasing the heart, so benign and enticing,
Heavenly stars, so remote and so distant!
Звездочки ясные, звезды высокие!
Что вы храните в себе, что скрываете?
Звезды, таящие мысли глубокие,
Силой какою вы душу пленяете?
Частые звездочки, звездочки тесные!
Что в вас прекрасного, что в вас могучего?
Чем увлекаете, звезды небесные,
Силу великую знания жгучего?
И почему так, когда вы сияете,
Маните в небо, в объятья широкие?
Смотрите нежно так, сердце ласкаете,
Звезды небесные, звезды далекие!
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«I splashed some colours from a tumbler / and smeared the drab world with emotion. / I charted on a dish of jelly / the jutting cheekbones of the ocean. / Upon the scales of a tin salmon / I read the calls of lips yet mute. / And you, / could you have played a noc...»
«Windows split the city’s great hell / into tiny hellets — vamps with lamps. / The cars, red devils, exploded their yells / right in your ear, rearing on their rumps. And there, under the signboard with herrings from Kerch / an old man, knocked down, stooping to search / for his specs,...»