Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Listen, by Maria Enzensberger and Elaine Feinstein
- Listen!, by Andrey Kneller
- Please Listen!, by Dmitry Berger
Vladímir Mayakovski (español)
- ¡Escuchen!, Lila Guerrero
«The lies of fame and love’s resolve / Have vanished now without a trace, / Our youthful passions have dissolved / As though a dream or morning haze. / Yet, still, we’re burning with desire, / And with impatience in our souls, / Beneath the yoke of strength and fire, / We hark our c...»
«Lily, Lily! I am sighing / With despair and hopeless woe. / I am tortured, I am dying, / And my soul has lost its glow, / But my love evoked no pity: / You consider me pathetic. / Keep on laughing: you are pretty / Even when unsympathetic. »
«Why feed the early signs of boredom / With sinister and dismal thought, / And wait for separation, burdened / With sorrow, lonesome and distraught? / The day of grief is close at hand! / You’ll stand, alone, out in the sun, / And try to bring back once again / These days, but they wi...»
«I’ve lived to see desire vanish, / With hope I’ve slowly come to part, / And I am left with only anguish, / The fruit of emptiness at heart. / Under the storms of merciless fate, / My worn and withered garland lies — / In sadness, lonesome, I await: / How far away is my demise? /...»