Already now the weary day
Has through the purple waves descended;
The cooling shades have fast extended;
The azure arch of heaven grows gray!
And solemn Night with peaceful pinions
Comas winging through her vast dominions,
And Hesper with his glittering star
Is herald of her flight afar!
To us, O heavenly Night, draw near
With Slumber’s welcome chalice hovering,
With magic curtain all things covering,
To weary hearts bring peace and cheer!
Soothe with thy presence so pacific,
With thy sweet music soporific,
As mothers soothe their babes to rest,
The soul by sorrow’s pangs distrest.
Уже утомившийся день
Склонился в багряные воды,
Темнеют лазурные своды,
Прохладная стелется тень;
И ночь молчаливая мирно
Пошла по дороге эфирной,
И Геспер летит перед ней
С прекрасной звездою своей.
Сойди, о небесная, к нам
С волшебным твоим покрывалом,
С целебным забвенья фиалом,
Дай мира усталым сердцам.
Своим миротворным явленьем,
Своим усыпительным пеньем
Томимую душу тоской,
Как матерь дитя, успокой.
«My love for you is now a baby elephant / who was born in Berlin or Paris / and treads with padded feet / the rooms of the menagerie owner. / Do not offer him French rolls, / do not offer him c abbage slumps, / he can eat just a quarter of a mandarin, / a lump of sugar or a sweet. / D...»
«My fantasy is proud and plain: / To grasp the crop, leap the stirrup, / Outrace sluggish time, / And always kiss fresh lips; And in old age before Christ’s grace, / With ash on head and eyes cast down / Breast burdened by an iron cross, / At last to take salvation’s burden. For onl...»
«Yes, I know, we are not together, / From another terrain I’m hewn, / Won’t allow the guitar to tether, / I prefer wild zurna’s tune. I don’t visit the halls and salons / Where an audience sits in black / I’m reciting my lines to dragons, / Waterfalls and the cloudy stack. Lik...»
«To you, having been born / A century too late, a breath — / From the depths — convicted to die —, / His hand — writing: — Friend! Do not look for me! Another fashion! / I do not remember even the elderly. / — By mouth you didn't get it! — Across Lethe's water / I put o...»