epub |eng | 1976-08-14 | Author:Anna Akhmatova [Thomas, D.M.]

Three Autumns The smiles of summer are simply indistinct And winter is too clear, But I can unerringly pick out Three autumns in each year. The first is a holiday ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:

[From notebook 23] Sunday, September 11. Went to the farmer’s market. Bought some bread and milk. Went with A. I. to Mostorg, got a price for my cigarette case (33 ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Jaan Kaplinski [Kaplinski, Jaan]

* A bird in the air. It is not its wings that bear its wings. Its wings are borne by the air. Words stand on wordlessness, logic on the absence ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

I How bored I am with the tetrameter, Used by everyone, every schoolboy rhymer. I’ve long been drawn to the pentameter, And thinking I would try ottava rima. I’m confident, ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-24 | Author:Leo Tolstoy

epub |eng | | Author:Anna Ahkmatova & Jane Kenyon

Oh, I know it fills him with joy—​ this hard and passionate certainty​ that there is nothing he needs,​ and nothing I can keep from him. 1 January 1914 5 ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:Aleksandr Pushkin

VII Lacking the lofty passion not to spare life for the sake of sounds, an iamb from a trochee he could not— [4] no matter how we strove—distinguish; dispraised Homer, ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Marina Tsvetaeva [Marina Tsvetaeva]

Waiting for happiness? It’s more like waiting for death. The soldiers will salute and three chunks of lead will slam into your chest. Your eyes will then flash red. No ...

epub |eng, rus | 2009-05-11 | Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky [Mayakovsky, Vladimir]

медведь медвееее! Потом извертясь вопросительным знаком хозяин полглаза просунул – oднако! Маяковский! Хорош медведь! – Пошел хозяин любезностями медоветь: Пожалуйста Прошу-с Ничего – я боком. Нечаянная радость-с, как сказано у ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-02 | Author:Rosy Carrick

When you’ve got the basic building blocks of the quatrain and you’ve decided on your architectural plan, you can consider that you’ve done the essential creative work. The rest consists ...