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

You were under Derzhavin,
You were under Nekrasov
You were under Nikitin,
And under Tolstoy too!
Oh you - just like an avalanche!
And though you were discarded,
And though new ones are written -
You burst into my book!

I greet you, my dear loyal ones,
The fully tried and tested ones,
The musical and flowerful
And most beloved by me!
Exemplary companions
You dear ones, you tender ones,
The happy and the sorrowful
The nightingale-like rhythms!



Poem to Refugees


In these miniature Russian colonies
Those who are hiding from lawlessness
Their sinful bodies and souls,
Interests are so pitiful
Feelings vicious and hypocritical:
They seek only food and warmth.

They all eat - it is only appropriate,
And the warmth in our time is important too,
Nobody will argue with that.
But apart from the warmth and the victuals
There are needs mental and spiritual,
Besides breakfast and wood and coat.

There is theater, symphony and poems,
There are paintings, and if in Estonia
There is no such delight,
My compatriots, Russian terribly,
Its your fault that you see things narrowly,
And you lose your hearing and sight.

If youll find nothing like this within this land
And this village except the wheat bread,
Maybe at nights we will perform
Shows of music and poems, and vocalists
We will give majestic performances