«Just yesterday, you met my gaze, / Now you avoid it, grim and dark! / You used to stay till morning rays, — / Now, ravens have replaced the larks! I’m just a fool, and you’re so wise, / You’re living and I’ve long turned numb. / O women’s ageless, timeless cries: / “My dea...»
«Love! Even convulsing, even in the grave, / I’ll get attentive — squint — get scared — and dart. / My dear! We’ll part in neither snowy caves / Nor in the graves of clouds shall we part! I have been blessed with these two gorgeous / Wings, and I refuse to load my heart with weig...»
«A path — into ether / Leaves the earth behind. / — Stop here, people! — / Adolescence is blind. / Higher and higher still! / Into the blue fields of rye! / — Stop! — or you will / Step on the sky.»
«I told her: the sidewalks are muddy, / The sky is gloomy, everyone is depressed... / I said that days are all the same / And make me sick at heart, / That balls, the theater — get on my nerves... / “Really?” I told her there’s cholera in the city, / So-and-so have pa...»