Do not cry and do not think:
The past – there’s no such thing!
With a friendly greeting
The light of day breaks in.
Falling asleep you ended,
And in waking resurrect.
Look at the sky extended
Without a thought or care.
Eternity – a wish fulfilled,
All that is bitter dead.
Stride tirelessly forward,
Ahead, ahead, ahead.
Не плачь и не думай:
Прошедшего - нет!
Приветственным шумом
Врывается свет.
Уснувши, ты умер
И утром воскрес, -
Смотри же без думы
На дали небес.
Что вечно - желанно,
Что горько - умрет...
Иди неустанно
Вперед и вперед.
«Already beautiful on the bookshelf / Your well-situated sister is set, / But over you is debris of starry hoards / And under you are fiery coals. / How you prayed, how you wanted to live, / How you dreaded the scathing fire, / But all at once your body began trembling, / And your voice...»
«Grecian heights are still missing / Adonis with his moony beauty avowed, / Graceful Hуаcinth and Narcissus, / Danaë, a golden cloud. Strong waves of iambic seas, / Wandering flocks of cranes, / And the palm tree Odysseus / Told Nauasicaa about are in pain. Neither sultry curls, nor ...»
«All knights of the green cathedral, in armour, / Who follow the compass on darkening seas, / Gonzalo, and Cook, La Perouse, and Da Gama, / Columbus, the dreamer and king, Genoese! Carthaginian Hanno, the Gambia’s master, / The mariner Sinbad, Ulysses the strong, / To the Cape the grey r...»
«A lone two horned moon hung above the town / When abruptly the mist was sharply sliced / And Odysseus stood high above the transom / To shoot his arrow through Antinoüs’s chest.* A chalice fell from Antinoüs’s hand, / His eyes were swathed in a haze of dark blood, / A slight tremor....»