- Язык:
Английский (English)
- Автор:
Бабетт Дейч(Babette Deutsch)
- A Treasury Of Russian Verse, 1949
Black diamond
Black velvet where a shining diamond
Forgotten lies,
To that I can compare the look that nigh
Sings in her eyes.
Her porcelain body's whiteness is too vague,
Too sweet a boon,
Like a white lilac blossom dim beneath
A dying moon.
Within lier soft and waxen hands the blood
Burns hot and bright
As an eternal candle set within
The Virgin's sight.
And all of her is airy as a bird
That would fly forth
On a clear day in autumn, taking leave
Of the sad North.
Перевод стихотворения Николая Гумилёва «Портрет» на английский язык.