HomeHelpLog In
 
Thursday 20 November, 2008
  Home My Account  |  Shopping Cart  |  Checkout   
SEARCH ALL PRODUCTS
 
 
Advanced Search
HOT ITEMS
Clearance Items
Deal of the Month
Personalized Items
APPAREL & ACCESSORIES
Bags & Backpacks
Footwear
Headwear
Scarves
Sports Jerseys
Sweatshirts
T-Shirts & Polos
CLOCKS & WATCHES
Clocks
Watches
DRINKING & DINING
Bottle Holders
Chocolate
Cutting Boards
Flasks
Glass Holders
Napkin Holders
Samovars
Tablecloths & Napkins
Zhostovo Trays
FOLK ART
Art Supplies & Blanks
Bells
Books on Folk Art
Chess Sets
Decorative Eggs
Golden Khokhloma
Guardian Figurines
Lacquer Boxes
Matryoshka Nesting Dolls
Music Boxes
Musical Instruments
Paintings
Siberian Birch Bark
Tilting Dolls
Wood Carving
US Patriotic Gifts
MILITARIA
Cockades & Pins
Greatcoats
Headwear
Patches & Pennants
Pilot's Wear
Soviet Uniforms
PORCELAIN
Ceramics
Gzhel
Porcelain Dolls
SHAWLS & SCARVES
Orenburg Shawls
Pavlov Posad Scarves
SOVIET COLLECTION
Flags & Pennants
Lapel Pins & Badges
Propaganda Postcards
Satire Posters
TINY WORKS OF ART
Brooches
Earrings
Hair Barrettes
Keychains
Magnets
Necklaces
Pins
RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS SHOP
Carved Santa Figurines
Christmas Brooches
Christmas Nesting Dolls
Christmas Ornaments
Christmas Eggs
Wall Calendars
RUSSIAN CULTURE
Russian Art
Russian Cuisine
Russian History
Russian Humor
Russian Language
Russian Music
Russian Poetry
Shops & Restaurants in USA

Sergei Esenin (Yesenin)
(4 Oct. 1895 - 27 Dec. 1925)

List of poems

Letter to Mother

Still around, old dear? How are you keeping?
I too am around. Hello to you!
May that magic twilight ever be streaming
Over your cottage as it used to do.

People write how sad you are, and anxious
For my sake, though you won't tell them so,
And that you in your old-fashioned jacket
Out onto the highroad often go.

That you often see in the blue shadows
Ever one dream, giving you no rest:
Someone in a drunken tavern scuffle
Sticks a bandit knife into my chest.

Don't go eating your heart out with worry,
It's just crazy nonsense and a lie.
I may drink hard, but I promise, mother,
I shall see you first before I die.

I love you as always and I'm yearning
In my thoughts for just one thing alone,
Soon to ease my heartache by returning
To our humble low-roofed country home.

I'll return when decked in white the branches
In our orchard are with spring aglow.
But no longer wake me up at sunrise,
As you used to do eight years ago.

Do not waken dreams no longer precious,
Hope never fulfilled do not excite.
It was my misfortune to experience
Loss and weariness too early in my life.

Don't teach me to pray. Please, mother!
There's no going back, try as you might.
You alone give me support and comfort,
You alone glow with a magic light.

So forget your cares, please. Don't be anxious
And for my sake, dear, don't worry so.
Out onto the road in your old-fashioned
Jacket, please do not so often go.



Письмо матери

Ты жива еще, моя старушка?
Жив и я. Привет тебе, привет!
Пусть струится над твоей избушкой
Тот вечерний несказанный свет.

Пишут мне, что ты, тая тревогу,
Загрустила шибко обо мне.
Что ты часто ходить на дорогу
В старомодном ветхом шушуне.

И тебе в вечернем синем мраке
Часто видится одно и то ж:
Будто кто-то мне в кабацкой драке
Саданул под сердце финский нож.

Ничего, родная! Успокойся.
Это только тягостная бредь.
Не такой уж горький я пропойца,
Чтоб, тебя не видя, умереть.

Я по-прежнему такой же нежный
И мечтаю только лишь о том,
Чтоб скорее от тоски мятежной
Воротиться в низенький наш дом.

Я вернусь, когда раскинет ветви
По-весеннему наш белый сад.
Только ты меня уж на рассвете
Не буди, как восемь лет назад.

Не буди того, что отмечталось,
Не волнуй того, что не сбылось, -
Слишком раннюю утрату и усталость
Испытать мне в жизни привелось.

И молиться не учи меня. Не надо!
К старому возврата больше нет.
Ты одна мне помощь и отрада,
Ты одна мне несказанный свет.

Так забудь же про свою тревогу,
Не грусти так шибко обо мне.
Не ходи так часто на дорогу
В старомодном ветхом шушуне.

1924


RELATED PRODUCTS
"Russian Writers"
$52.60
St. Petersburg Chocolate: "Natalia Goncharova" Set
$51.69

Copyright © 2000-2007 RussianLegacy.com. All rights reserved. Conditions of Use
Home | Affiliate Program | Return Policy | Safe Shopping | Shipping Policy | Links | Affiliate Directories | Contact Us