Marina Tsvetaeva. I like that you are sick not because of me… (collection).
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Contents:
About love (From the diary)
Secret heat
“Into my poems, written so early…”
“Pumped with sunbeams— not with blood…”
“You who walk past me…”
“Two suns grow cold— oh Lord, spare me!..”
“A flower pinned to my chest…”
“Gypsy passion of separation!..”
“Full moon, and bear fur…”
“I am given hands—to stretch them to everyone with both…”
“In my great city—night…”
“After an sleepless night the body weakens…”
“Tonight I’m a heavenly guest…”
“Bitterness! Bitterness! Eternal aftertaste…”
Alye
“Only live!— I dropped my hands…”
Love’s old mist
“From your proud Poland…”
“No! There is still love’s hunger…”
“Seven swords pierced the heart…”
“I am. You will be. Between us is an abyss…”
“Nights without a beloved— and nights…”
“Like the right and left hand…”
“Valor and virginity!— This union…”
“Every poem is a child of love…”
The comic performer
“Sun—one, and it walks through all cities…”
“It will sneak up unheard…”
“Oh no, none of you will know…”
“You’ll fall— you won’t move a finger…”
“Someday, charming creature…”
“Yes— the boundsless edge of sighs about me!..”
“Don’t hasten the court…”
Pinned down…
“Enraptured and enrapturing…”
“I wrote on an aspid stone board…”
“Love! Love! In spasms, and in the coffin…”
“I know, I will die at dawn! At the one of the two…”
“From all winds…”
Good news
“There is an hour for those words…”
“Ferocious valley…”
“So in my meager labor of days…”
“Night whispers: silks…”
“Find yourself trusting friends…”
“Remember the law…”
“When then, Lord…”
“By my tans— an ax and a plow…”
“Hello! Not an arrow, not a stone…”
“In the lonely temple…”
Balcony
“You won’t catch the night guest….”
“Impossibly the life lies…”
“I thought: they’ll be easy…”
“Hands— and into the circle…”
To Berlin
“Make sure— wait a while!..”
“Bright-silver bloom…”
“In the poor air of the afterlife…”
Ophelia— to Hamlet
Ophelia— in defense of the queen
Phaedra
Euridice— to Orpheus
Seashell
Absence
Letter
A minute
Blade
Magdalene
“From this mountain, like from a roof…”
Gully
“Along the quays where gray trees…”
“Ancient futility runs through the veins…”
Escape
“I love— but torment is still alive…”
“You, who loved me with deceit…”
Attempt at jealousy
Signs
“Scimitar? Fire?..”
“Not the thunder-wheel…”
“Days sliding down like slugs…”
Poems for an orphan
“When I look at flying leaves…”
“To the blue sky, I lift my gaze…”
“Two— hotter than fur! Hands— hotter than down!..”
“He left— I don’t eat…”
“—It’s time! for this fire…”
“—Your years are a mountain…”
“It’s time to remove amber…”
“I repeat the first verse…”
I am grateful to the poets
Ellis (L. L. Kobyliński, 1879–1947)
Sorcerer. Poem
S. Ya. Parnok (1885–1933)
Friend
“Hands that don’t need…”
“And neither stanzas nor constellations will save…”
“The soul without measure…”
“Hairy star…”
“Oh first sun over the first brow!..”
“Blessed are your daughters, Earth…”
“Not short— tall…”
Daughter of Jairus
Sibyl
Trees
God
Scythian
Clouds
Brooks
Window
Hour of soul
“Don’t sleep for someone else…”
Dream
“I lived my life in random places…”
“High-mindedness is a caste…”
“Closing eyes— and otherwise it can’t be…”
Bush
Love, Love…
Poem of the Mountain
Poem of the End
For joy
Ace
To Sergey Efron-Durnovo
P. E
“I like that you are sick not because of me…”
“A fierce grandmother told me…”
Daniil
“Tonight I’m alone in the night…”
“August— asters…”
From the cycle “Don Juan”
Stenka Razin
“No! There is still love’s hunger…”
“On my dagger: Marina…”
Poems for a daughter
Brothers
A student
“The Volkon sky is enclosed in itself, not in itself…”
“I won’t complain…”
Marina
“How things flare up— with what dry tinder!..”
Separation
To a messenger
From the cycle “Georgy”
Good news
Praise to Aphrodite
“With such strength in the chin, the hand…”
Friend
“I forget my beloved together with myself, with the one who loved…”
Ariadne
Words and meanings
“By byways of verbs…”
“So people listen…”
Brother
Inclination
“Love in us…”
“Love, love…”
“Of the left side of the throne…”
“…Did you think…”
“Friend, on the hot trail…”
“Love without jealousy…”
“A house with green luxuriance…”
“Dear children…”
Escape
“Quieter, quieter, quieter, my loud age!..”
“—Your verse isn’t needed…”
“About a poet I didn’t think…”
“Solitude: go away…”
“Life at the edge…”
“Not for two sides a fighter— but if a guest comes by chance…”
To fathers
Life
“From the native villages, villages!..”
“Knowing only royal miseries…”
Garden
“If only there are coral shells on your neck…”
“I haven’t taken revenge on anyone and I won’t take revenge…”
The Ratcatcher. Lyric satire
Charles Baudelaire. “La voyage” Translation by Marina Tsvetaeva. Sailing
“Dying, I won’t say: I was…”
“What do I need clouds and steppes for…”
The emigrant
Poets
Christenings
A conversation with a genius
“I opened the veins: unstoppable…”
“There are lucky ones and lucky ones…”
To A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837)
Meeting with Pushkin
“Happiness or grief…”
Psyche
Poems to Pushkin
A. de Chenier (1762–1794)
André Chenier
P. J. Béranger (1780–1857)
In memory of Béranger
G. Heine (1797–1856)
In memory of G. Heine
To A. A. Blok (1880–1921)
Poems to Blok
Letter to Akhmatova (After the death of Blok)
To V. I. Ivanov (1866–1949)
To Vyacheslav Ivanov
To K. D. Balmont (1867–1942)
To Balmont
Balmont (To the thirty-fifth anniversary of poetic work)
Balmont’s Jubilee (Record)
To A. A. Akhmatova (1889–1966)
To Anna Akhmatova
Poems to Akhmatova
“Everything about myself, everything about love…”
Letter to Akhmatova dated April 26, 1921
To Akhmatova (in response to the stubborn rumor of her death)
Letter to Akhmatova dated August 31, 1921
Akhmatova (“Who is your stripes…”)
To V. V. Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
To Mayakovsky
To Mayakovsky
To S. A. Yesenin (1895–1925)
“Brother in song’s misfortune…”
(About Yesenin)
“Yesenin died…”
To P. G. Antokolsky (1896–1978)
To Antokolsky
To N. P. Gronsky (1909–1934)
Tombstone
About the book by N. P. Gronsky “Poems and Poems”
To B. L. Pasternak (1890–1960)
Wires
Two
“Distance: versts, miles…”
“A bow from me to Russian rye…”
From the sea
An attempt at a room
To O. E. Mandelshtam (1891–1938)
“No one took anything away!..”
“Gathering beloved ones for the road…”
“You throw your head back…”
“Where does such tenderness come from?..”
“Scattered into silver debris…”
“Death by a woman. Here’s the sign…”
“Something strange became ill with him…”
My answer to Osip Mandelshtam
To M. A. Voloshin (1878–1932)
ICI – Haut[51] (In memory of Maximilian Voloshin)
To A. Beliy (1880–1934)
Captured spirit (my meeting with Andrey Beliy)
I. The preceding legend
II. The meeting
To V. Ya. Bryusov (1873–1924)
“Smile into my ‘window’…”
“I forgot that the heart in you is only a night light…”
Magic in Bryusov’s poems
The hero of labor
Part One
I. The poet
II. First meeting
III. Letter
IV. Two short verses
V. “The poets’ family”
VI. A prize puppy
Part Two. Revolution
I. Lito
II. Evening in the conservatory
III. Evening of the poetesses
IV. Balmont and Bryusov
V. Final words
Epic and lyrics of modern Russia
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Boris Pasternak
Living about the living (Voloshin)
Koktebel
Max and a fairy tale
The last vision
My Pushkin