Sergei Yesenin

Sergei A. Yesenin – Confessioni di un teppista / Hooligan’s Confession

Wassily Kandinsky, Colorful Life, 1907 Not everyone can sing, Not everyone can fall Like an apple at a stranger’s feet. This is the greatest confession, That a hooligan can have. I go unkempt on purpose, With my head, like a kerosene lamp, on my shoulders. The leafless autumn, your souls in darkness — I love …

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Sergei A. Yesenin – Una sera azzurra / Blue is the night

Winslow Homer, Summer Night, 1890 Blue is the night, and the moon is glancing , there was a time, I was young and handsome. So irretrievable and so persistent  all has gone by…all is past …and distant… Cold is my heart and so dim is my sight… Blue is my happiness! Moonlit the night! Una …

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Sergei A. Yesenin – .Ho lasciato la casa paterna / I have left my endeared home

Frank Johnston, A northern night, 1917 I have left my endeared home, getting out of my Russia of blue. Little grove by the pond will warm my old mother’s sorrow anew. Like a golden croaker the moon lies prostrate on the water tranquil. Grizzly hair, like apple-tree bloom, in my father’s beard will spill. I …

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Sergei A. Yesenin – Con rimprovero non mi guardare / Don’t you look at me so reproachfully

Ron Hicks, A couple, c. 2000 Don”t you look at me so reproachfully. I do not bear malice to you, but I like your appearance awfully and your seeming modesty, too Yes, you seem to be openhearted, and I’d rather be glad to see how a fox pretending departed catches crows like you want to …

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