The Lost Tram (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
I walked an unfamiliar streetAnd suddenly heard a raven's cry,And the sound of a lute, and distant thunder,-In front of ...
I walked an unfamiliar streetAnd suddenly heard a raven's cry,And the sound of a lute, and distant thunder,-In front of ...
Only snakes shed their skin,So their souls can age and grow.We, alas, do not resemble snakes,We change souls, not bodies.Memory, ...
Only serpents let their skin be fallenAnd a soul — all grown up and old.We, alas, change an eternal soul,Leaving ...
In that magic forest, towering treesUnexpectedly come forward from the haze.Out of the earth, roots spring from other roots,Like the ...
All of us - righteous and sinners,Born in prison, raised at the altar,All of us are funny actorsIn the theater ...
In the days when the God eternalWas declining face to the new world,By the Word they stopped the sun's inferno,And ...
Fine is the wine that is in love with us,The goodly bread we wait for from the oven,And woman whom ...
Today, I see, your glance is especially sadAnd your arms, embracing your knees, especially thin.Listen: far, far away on the ...
Why did you come, my thoughts, in instant,Like thieves to rob my quiet habitation,Like vultures, gloomy and malignant, With thirst ...
Dear girl, your cheeks are soft and tender,And your breasts, like little hills, are slender,Fall in love with me and ...
I know: to the trees, but not to us,Perfection of the life is given, whole.And on the Earth - the ...
There are the modern prophets here,Though altars totally are felt, Their eyes are very deep and clear -In them, the ...
This single link was else respectedBy people of the days that gone -There's written on its tablet sacredThat Love and ...
Birth of the word is by agony molded,Through earthly life it is quietly going,It is a stranger, which drinks from ...
Maybe, in my previous a-being,I've cut the throats of my Mom and Dad,If in this one - Lord of all ...
Lawful wife.There is still some wine left in the chalice,And the plate that's served is nests of the swallows.Since the ...
I'm in the days' embracing limits,Where even skies are ever gray,Look through the ages, live in minutes,And wait for Holy ...
A queer and fearful question is tight,Oppresses my soul and tosses:Can one be alive if Atreus has died —Has died ...
The eternal entrance into EdenIs not locked with seven precious seals;It has no charms nor light of heaven,And the people ...
I know her, her bitter silence,Her tiredness of her words and cries,Lives in the secret changing brightnessOf widened pupils of ...
The merciless fire devouredThe house of my childhood games.I needed to overcome sorrow,And sailed on the golden-mast boat.I played on ...
By the hut, left by people and heaven,Where the fence's black remnants are steeping, The ragged beggar and black old ...
I stared at the unfolding road,Beneath the shadow of grand oaks, -Such a familiar old road,Surrounded by flower fence.The evening ...
Let verse of yours be flexible, but strong,Strong as a poplar under valley's cover,Strong as the earth under a plough, ...
He did not lie - the ghost, so sad and thoughtful, That from a star took his name by a ...
Amidst the waters of a man-made lake,A porcelain pavilion rises high.The way to it is lead by jasper bridgeThat's cambered ...
I'm sick, for sure: deep darkness holds my heart,I'm bored with the people and the stories,And dream of treasures of ...
My own dream is lofty, simple thing:To seize the oar, put feet into the stirrups,And to deceive the time, that ...
Wanderer, far from his homeland,You are poor and you are alone,For the time, deprived of listeningTo the music of mother ...
I wait for, full of thoughts provoking, But not a gay and pretty wife,Not the sincere and gentle talkingAbout the ...
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