Vladislav Khodasevich
- Ballad of the Heavy Lyre, by Peter Daniels
- Orpheus, by Athena
- Orpheus, by Vladimir Nabokov
«Let the names of flowery cities / Caress the ear with fleeting glory — / It is not Rome the city that’s immortal, / But man’s presence in the universe. Kings try to get man in their power, / Priests find excuses for their wars, / And yet without him hearths and altars / Like wretc...»
«‘I have lost a delicate cameo / By the Neva’s bank, I don’t know where. / I’m grieving for my lovely Roman girl’ — / Almost in tears you came and said to me. But why, beautiful Georgian, / Disturb the dust of godlike tombs? / Another downy snowflake now / Has melted on your ...»
«Let us proclaim, brothers, the twilight of freedom, / The great twilight year. / Into the seething waters of night / An enormous forest of snares has been lowered. / You are rising on years of suffocation / O sun, judge, people. Let us proclaim the fateful burden / Which the people’s ...»
«You cannot breathe, the ground with maggots seethes, / And not a single star can speak; / But — God can see — there’s music up above us: / The station trembles with Aonian song, / And ripped in shreds with locomotive whistles / The screeching air resolves again. The enormous park â€...»