Poems

Contents:
1. Prelude
2. Inscription on the portrait of A. Osipenko
3. What I do, everyone can do / Want to know how it all happened / If only we could get to the seaside — by S. Ivannikova
4. Ah! It’s you again. Not the love-struck girl... / Ah, you thought I was like that too / Chop, chop, chop me, wind! — by Oksana Bazilevich
5. By the very sea — by B. M. Bychkova: Twenty-first. Night. Monday... / Everything is the same as before / 0, no, I didn’t love you / The music rang in the garden / He loved three things in the world — by E. Kramer
6. I speak now in words / I will serve you faithfully / Leaving the sacred homeland groves / The Golden Pigeon House by the water / It lasts without end—an amber, heavy day / When the moon lies cut into a piece / And in books I turn to the last page / The Muse — by K. Levina
7. Petersburg in 1913 — by Svetlana Surganova
8. An Unprecedented Autumn Built a Dome — by P. Malakhovsky
9. And now I remain alone / For somewhere there is simple life / Earthly glory is like smoke / Farewell now, the capital / In every day there is such — / This is just, this is clear / A river flows calmly down the valley / At that time I was visiting the earth / One goes by the straight path — by Svetlana Surganova
10. S. Babkin reads poems to K. Gумilev: Haiku / Scattering stars / Indelible—no, there is none of it in my fate / After so many years I have returned (from Babkin’s) — Sergey Babkin
11. Under the frozen roof / We cannot say goodbye / Why have you poisoned the water / Death of Sophocles / Alexander at Thebes — by Evgeniya Debryanskaya
12. Requiem / But I warn you — by Svetlana Surganova