«Come, Jim, give me your paw for luck, / I swear i've never seen one like it. / Let's go, the two of us, and bark / Up the moon when Nature's silent. Come, Jim, give me your pow for luck. / Stop licking me, pet, and please do / At least heed this advice i'm giving. / Of life you havent g...»
«Deep in the desert's misery, / far in the fury of the sand, / there stands the awesome Upas Tree / lone watchman of a lifeless land. The wilderness, a world of thirst, / in wrath engendered it and filled / its every root, every accursed / grey leafstalk with a sap that killed. Dissolvi...»
«Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover; / Flying snow is set alight / By the moon whose form they cover; / Blurred the heavens, blurred the night. / On and on our coach advances, / Little bell goes din-din-din... / Round are vast, unknown expanses; / Terror, terror is within. — Fas...»
«Oh when will we go back to Russia? Oh, Hamlet of east, tell me when. / In fog and on foot we will travel, a blistering cold there’ll be then, / It won’t be triumphal, with horses, on foot we will go – no acclaim, / But you may be sure, I can promise, we’ll get to the end, all the same....»