Fates and Hearts: Poems and Long Poems

14 hrs. 20 min.

Poetry

Language Russian

Author Eduard Asadov

Narrator Igor Murashko

Description

The collection of the Soviet poet E. Asadov includes poems and long poems from different years. The author of this book is a front-line veteran, so the military theme is reflected in it above all (a lyrical monologue “To the Motherland”). This edition also includes poems and long poems dedicated to the beauty and richness of the native land, love for Russian nature. The book ends with the lyrical novella “Galina.” It is a full-hearted and passionately dramatic story about a person’s place under the sun, about a great and difficult love, and about the responsibility of adults for the fates of children.

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Poems:
Various
Write Your Own Biographies
The Twentieth Century
A Constellation of Hounds
Ah, how strange we often can be!..
Learn!
Russia did not begin with a sword!
Debate
Treasure happiness, treasure it!
In a Forest Land
Snow Falls
Remember!
What is Happiness
House Spirit (Domovoi)
When they tell me about beauty…
Kindness
Gentle Words
When the Poet Sometimes Falls in Love…
How can I make you like me?
Test Love
Ah, how everything is relative in this world!
To the Motherland (Lyric monologue)
I Believe in the Genius Himself
I Can Wait for You Very, Very Long…
To My Old Friend Boris Shpitsburg
Memories
Leaf Fall (Autumn)
The Fifth Line
A Winter Tale
Island of Romance
An Unfair Fight
A Reply to Readers
Rings and Hands
Shagane
An Evening in Yerevan
An Icy Ballad
Cowardice
Forest River (to Vasily Fedorov)
Two Storks
A Ballad of Hate and Love
A Letter from the Front
I’m No Longer Sixteen, Mom!
An Evening in the Hospital (to Lidiya Ivanovna Asadova)
Slanderers
Insomnia
With us, things always turn out… without each other
A Drunken Fire
Her Love (to an actress of the gypsy theater “Romen” — Olga Kononova)
The Gypsies Sing
An Old Gypsy Woman
Colors of Feelings
When Friends Become Bosses
The Worst Betrayal
Dreams
Unremarkable Heroes
A Bit Eccentric
A Bewitched Circle
Long Life
An Old “Gasoline Truck”
Once
How I Loved Trains as a Child
December 24
Our life is like a tiny lantern—its narrow light…
Souls and Things
To Leningrad
A Friend’s Rose (to the Secretary of the Brest Fortress Komsomol Samvel Matveyosyan)
Victory Day in Sevastopol
A Spring Song
Small People
About What You Must Never Lose
White Roses
Wives of Pharaohs (A Joke)
Marinka
“Necessary People”
An Evening Song
In the Hour of Glory
Conversation with a Friend
Free Love
Different Properties
To Bring Up a Person
An Ancient Appointment
Whiners and Nuisances
In a Café
A Date with Childhood (Lyric monologue)
“Progressive” Novel
Good People (to Lieutenant General Ivan Semyonovich Strelbitsky)
Inequality
Faithful Eve (A Joke)
Edelweiss (A Lyrical Ballad)
In the Name of Conscience
To My Literary Enemies
Always in Combat
About the Meaning of Life
Offending Love
A Conversation with the Celestials (A Joke)
I Can’t Understand
A Taiga Spring
At Daybreak
Let Them Appoint Me as a Magician (A Joke)
Anyway, I’ll Come
Mischievous Lines
A Ballad About a Friend
People of the Word
About Future Old Age (A Joke)
A Forest Tale
“A Kind Kingdom”
Second Love
Oh, I wish I could live for a long, long time!..
Give Peace to a Person!
The Beginning
Electrocardiogram
In the Taiga
Love and Cowardice
You’re Far Away from Me Today…
Spring in the Forest
I Love the Dog for Its Faithful Temper…
Everything Seems Like I Did It Well…
One Letter
Thaw
Two Routes
About the Base and the Sacred
A Girl and a Forest Spirit (A Fairy Tale—A Joke)
The Caterpillar Queen
Sticky Hands
My Love
Anxieties
On the Wing (to Galina Valentinovna Asadova (Razumovskaya))
Fates and Hearts
Culprits
I Met You in April
Don’t Grieve
Love, Betrayal, and a Sorcerer
Don’t Cling to Yesterday’s Day…
I’ll See You Off
I’ve Never Felt Such Small Anger in Life…
Height
Separation
When I Meet Bad in People…
What is a Person Like in Soul, in Mind?..
The Strongest on Earth
The Pharmacy of Happiness (A Joke)
A High Duty
White and Black Coats
A Mistake
To Christian Bernard

Birds Take Flight
Dreams are Deception, and You Don’t Have to Believe in Dreams…
Reflection
Without Lifting My Eyes from Modesty…
The Little Soldiers Sleep, and the Little Horses Too…
A Straight Conversation
Poems About Honor
Silver Wedding
Birds Take Flight
Bitter Words
Comprehension

Long poems
A Poem About First Tenderness
Shurka
Galina