January 18, 2022

Poesia russa - it's hard to breathe, and pain to live...

 


And still my heart is dark forever,
And it's hard to breathe, and pain to live...
Mashenka, I never believed
It possible to love and grieve like this.

Nikolai Gumilev / 1921

      — translated by Carl R. Proffer

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