Vyacheslav Ivanov
- Love, by A. Z. Foreman
(We are two tree-trunks lightning struck alight...)
Vjatsjeslav Ivanov (nederlands)
- Liefde, Arie Van Der Ent
(Wij zijn één stam, gekraakt door hemelvuur...)
«You are engrossed in ledgers, / In plans and tragic policies, / You who once sang to the brink / The Flying Dutchman with your verse. A storm swelled at your canvas tent / And roared, intensifying, / Until you, wing d still, descended / At last to walk beside me again. And now you slog...»
«For Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Zalshupina Why must life put up with such eccentrics / As every day for a small token / It passes for revue over the abyss / Hurrying from Potsdam as the sun goes down? He passes out roses and mignonettes / From a basket, at the cornerstone that he rents, / Whe...»
«1 In the trading district where a person’s feet / Can hardly step, a fortune-teller’s footsteps go / Stepping through the raging storm, a street / Where men, dead-like, sleep in the snow, — But wait, in the trading district where a per- / son’s feet can hardly step, a fortune-telle...»
«I seem adroit at picking words / As primordial as your words are. / If wrong, — it’s all the same to me, / I’ll go on making errors anyway. I hear patter on wet roofs, and eclogues / That fade from boardwalks and cobblestones. / A certain city, distinct from the first line, / Thri...»