Zinaida Gippius

• Psyche, by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
  A shameless thing, of every vileness capable, / It is as drab as dust, as earthly dust. / I perish of a nearness inescapable; / Its fatal coils ...
• She, by James McGavran
  In her shameless and pathetic baseness, / Like dust, she is gray, like mortal remains. / And I am dying of this fatal closeness, / Because she c...