De Russische schrijver en dichter Alexander Blok werd geboren op 28 november 1880 in St. Petersburg. Zie ook alle tags voor Alexander Blok op dit blog.
The night
The night. The street. Street-lamp. Drugstore.
A meaningless dull light about.
You may live twenty-five years more;
All will still be there. No way out.
You die. You start again and all
Will be repeated as before:
The cold rippling of a canal.
The night. The street. Street-lamp. Drugstore.
Vertaald door Vladimir Markov en Merrill Sparks
Here We Live..
Here we live in ancient chambers
By the water strings.
Here at spring the gladness rambles,
And the river sings.
As the gaiety’s first message,
With the first spring gales,
There will pour the blazing azure
In the doors of cells.
And quite full of sacred shudder
Of the years of dreams,
Through the fields we’ll gaily ride in
Bless of dazzling beams.
My Monastery, Where..
My monastery, where I’m badly pining,
Is granite, melted by the burning mind.
I’m strangled and blinded under this heat, lying,
And leave it, trying a new cell to find…
There’ll be still heat, but one that’s always warming.
The bloody ball will melt my brain to ash,
I’ll lose my mind in ways, the more calming,
Than in this one, oppressing blood and flesh.
Where’s the new cell? Where is my cloister, novel?
Not on the skies, the grave’s darkness behind,
But on the Earth it’s healthy one and low,
Where I’ll find all, when having lost my mind!…
Vertaald door Yevgeny Bonver

Alexander Blok (28 november 1880 – 7 augustus 1921)
Portret door Ladunya, 2010
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