Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Be Drunk

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's theonly way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaksyour back and..

© Charles Baudelaire

Do Not Entrust

Do not entrust all roads yoursTo the unfaithful, immense crowd:It'll smash your castle with rough force,And quench light of your temple, proud.He's..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

Do Neglect All Your Dear Creations

Do neglect all your dear creations,And all people and worldly contacts;Do neglect all your hot earthly passions,Think in days, and say prayers in..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

I'M Hamlet Now

I'm Hamlet now. Freezes blood,When the perfidy waves laces,While love is first - and lives in heartFor her - the one in times and spaces.Ophelia, my..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

Here We Live

Here we live in ancient chambersBy the water strings.Here at spring the gladness rambles,And the river sings.As the gaiety's first message,With the..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

Grass Was Pushing Through

Grass was pushing through earth by the graves, we've forgot.We've forgot yesterday… We've forgot every word…Only silence around us sings…Whether..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

Flaming Signs Of The Mystery

Flaming signs of the mystery growOn the wall, that is solid and grim,And the tulips of purple and goldAll the night hang o'er me in my dream.I hide..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

A Flame's In Skies

A flame's in skies. The night lays dead and grey.The wood's high trees are crowding around,But in the night I clear hear sound -The hum of mobs in..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

I'Ve To Return

I've to return to my great battle;Revive my spirit, sleep my flesh!Let's change with days, in prayers settled,All these days of the happy flash!But..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

It's Lifted Up

It's lifted up - this iron pole -Over our cursed heads, And weAre flying o'er the abyss, awful,Through space where none can something see.But..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

In The Sea Of High Grass

In the sea of high grass you'll be sunk with your head,In the house - with peace come along…She'll embrace with her arms, veil around with her..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

The Ophelia's Song

Your sweetheart forever leaving,Friend, you swear me to love! ...And in lands of boring livingTo preserve the pledge above! ...Outside our Denmark..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

You'Re Gone Away

You're gone away, and I'm in desert,Pressing myself against hot sand.But now my mouth can't profess it -The proud word that's to be said.I see my..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

So Melodiously And Airily

So melodiously and airily,The princess sang about spring,That I told her, "Oh, princess-fairy,Only for me you'll cry and sing."On shoulders mine lay..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

There's A Morn Demon

There's a morn demon. He's of gauze and light,The happy one - with golden hair.Like skies, is blue his tunic's airy flood,All - in a play of..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

There'Re The Moments

There're the moments: the life doesn't orderThunderstorms and disasters for us,Someone will put light arms on your shoulders,Someone - send a bright..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

There'Re The Moments

There're the moments: the life doesn't orderThunderstorms and disasters for us,Someone will put light arms on your shoulders,Someone - send a bright..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

My Sweet Friend

My sweet friend, and in this quiet home,Beats a fever me, the same.I can't find a place in quiet homeBy its always peaceful flame!Voices sing, a..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

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..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

I Know, There's My Death

I know, there's my death. And youAlready does not spite me more,You'll condescend from clear blueTo end of my sad earthly dole.But love of yours is..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

I Slow Was Losing

I slow was losing my poor mindBy doors of her, with whom I'm crazy.A day was followed by a night,Just making my great thirst more blazing.And I was..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

I Seek Salvation

I seek salvation.My fires blaze on mountains' far heights -The realm of night is in a glare.But brighter blaze my spiritual sightAnd You're afar ..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

The Earthly Heart

The earthly heart quit freezes blood,But, with my breast, I meet great cold.I bear on the empty roadThe virgin love to all mankind.But, behind love..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

And I Shall Watch

And I shall watch how's coming to its endThe universe, my country, native.The lone one, I shall be jubilantOn its commemorations, festive.Let my age..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

All On The Earth

All on the earth will die - and youth and mother,Wife will betray you, leave once faithful friend,But you learn to enjoy the bliss another -Look in a..

© Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok