"Igor Severyanin. Selected Poems " - читать интересную книгу автора

>From reason. The ship leaves. On it Ill take flight.



Painted Ones


Theyre "red" today, and theyre "white" tomorrow -
Ah, no tapestry! No flowers, this!
Tiresome to me to the point of nausea,
Small people hideous and turned to beasts.

Lowly today and tomorrow lowly,
Today the thieves and tomorrow too.
Vile scoundrels now and vile scoundrels formerly,
Will provoke any revolt for you.

Ideas foolish, dreams, all in vanity,
That in their theory is way to god.
They all are colorless in their entity -
Today theyre "white" and tomorrow "red"!



Poem of the Reason for Cheer

We live in astounded wonder
At change of contrasting events.
Viennas horrors and hunger
Threw us into chills and cold sweat.

And that, which we left on the east side -
Unfathomable to the mind.
In some times and dates you are trusting,
Not knowing yet how and why.

You arent weak in the soul, I am sure,
As you lean over life, like an urn:
In a republic miniature
The big order has been born.

Perhaps we are broken in hope
And thrown into an abyss:
Were sated, were sated, and so
Were ready for faith and for bliss.

We trust - we cant not trust, I found!
We wait - we cant not wait in our turn!
That world will in that measure be crowned
Which divine grace will return.