You were crying on a quiet night,
Those tears in your eyes you weren't hiding,
I was so sad and so depressed inside,
And yet we couldn't overcome misunderstanding.
Now you are gone, I'm here, on my own,
My dreams have faded, losing tint and colour,
You left me, and again I am all alone,
Without tenderness and greeting, in my parlour.
When evening comes I often, crowned with rue,
Come to the place of our dating here,
And in my dreams I see the sight of you
And hear you crying bitterly, my dear.
Ты плакала в вечерней тишине,
И слезы горькие на землю упадали,
И было тяжело и так печально мне,
И все же мы друг друга не поняли.
Умчалась ты в далекие края,
И все мечты мои увянули без цвета,
И вновь опять один остался я
Страдать душой без ласки и привета.
И часто я вечернею порой
Хожу к местам заветного свиданья,
И вижу я в мечтах мне милый образ твой,
И слышу в тишине тоскливые рыданья.
«To Lydia Zinoviev-Annibal For days on end we sailed the river Ocean / To meet the day; our sails are stretched and sure / Our course, resistless land propels our motion; / The voice of waves grows weary and obscure, The orb of day goes blind and burns carnationred; / at last, night falls, ...»
«Your love is like the Milky Way / Whose stellar dew inside me glimmers. / In dreams, its hidden torment shimmers / Like diamonds rippling in the waves. You are, like astral fluid, bitter, / The light of tears that pierces graves. / I am the skyline that obeys / The dawn, its blind and u...»
«The barren slope of the meandering valley / Is overgrown with hoary, wiry grass. / Spurge shows up white. Eroded beds of clay / Reveal the sparkling lead and shale and mica. The water-worn and slaty walls sprout capers; / A crevice clasps the olive’s withered trunk; / Above the hill, th...»
«A sacred wood was here. The messenger of gods / Would let his winged foot fall lightly on these glades. / The onetime site of cities kept no trace of their ruin. / In flocks, sheep creep along the bronze inclines. The slopes are woodless. In the green twilight, the mountains / Form a jagged...»