The Hostess (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
Peace will be signed and we'll be at your doorAt twelve o'clock at night, with noise and mirth,Your humble servant, ...
Peace will be signed and we'll be at your doorAt twelve o'clock at night, with noise and mirth,Your humble servant, ...
For three long months continues the bombardment.The bloodstained Malakov withstands it still.The hoarse-voiced drum drives on the British redcoats.Once more ...
Remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolenshchina,Remember the rain and the mud and the pain,The women, exhausted, who brought milk in ...
No holly bush is here; no ancient yew tree;Strange stones embedded in the salt marsh stand,And rusted by the sun, ...
In Vyazma is an ancient houseWhich once one night was home to us.That night we ate whatever came,The source of ...
Not long ago, when I was at a dinner,I heard a toast - and here I write it down."I had ...
If God in his almighty PowerCalled me to heaven when I diedAnd I was asked, at Heaven's gate,What I should ...
I want to say to you "You are my wife!"Because you were not called that by the rest,Because to my ...
The major brought the boy out on the gun;His mother dead, unwept, no time for tears.He was a child for ...
You used to say to me "I love you!",But that was through your teeth, at night,The bitter truth of "I ...
I remember two girls at the door in the night,(Your shows ended later the year before last)Two fans at the ...
It is as if my friends are marchingAnd I along with them, in time,Through many different streets they're passing,Those nearest, ...
Wait for me, and I'll come back!Wait with all you've got!Wait, when dreary yellow rainsTell you, you should not.Wait when ...
Don't be angry if I writeOnly just from time to time,Writing now, and then again,Waiting till another time.Letters come in ...
Above our submarine's black nose she rises -That Venus, which is like no other star!We men, long missing out on ...
All through his life he drew the scenes of war.One starless night, he hit a mine at dawnAnd traveled to ...
Well may I curse in years to comeThe features of your face.My love is like a cataclysm,Transcending time and space.There's ...
I cannot write a single line of verse,Not to the girl you were, nor to you now.And after all the ...
With glass a thousand miles thickParting has glazed the windows of your flat;And I look through, as from another world,But ...
The sense that love is coming's worseThan love itself. Love is like war -You've come together, eye to eye.You're with ...
I buried love and doomed myself to beIts monument. Above the recent graveUpon myself I carved a dozen lines,Beyond my ...
You get from time to time a manWho's every woman's silent friend -A friend without ulterior aim,A friend on whom ...
When you come back into your town,And women come to meet you thereAnd hold above their greying headsThe children high ...
That's how we live, without forgetting,Today it's him, tomorrow I.The cup of death goes round the tableAnd each must wait ...
In a dream, I saw a weddingAnd I think the bride was you.You the bride and I a beggarAt the ...
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