Николай Агнивцев. Вдали от тебя, Петербург Ужель в...

Nikolay Agnivtsev.

Far from you, Petersburg

Really wandering around the world
You do not pierce even once, all of a sudden,
Lightning Rapier -
The steel word "Petersburg"?

Can it be Pushkin, Dostoevsky,
Palaces frozen parade parade,
Neva, Millionnaya and Nevsky
They don’t tell you anything?

And the throne of Russian Cleopatra
In his garden? .. And on the contrary
"Alexandrinsky Theater"
An unshaken array?

Really unknown to you even:
Facade of the Kazan colonnades?
Caryatids of the Hermitage?
Soaring Peter, and the Summer Garden?

Didn’t you pass by
In a little strange height
At the old-fashioned Imperial
On the "Petersburg side"?

Really, from glasses of thin-narrow
Tseda green Peppermint,
At the feet of the beauties of St. Petersburg
Didn't you throw a compliment?

And adamantly annoyed
Vyborg horn factories?
A white dinner at the Donon?
And what about the “Dominican” pie?

A multi-colored gypsies
On the "Black River", behind the bridge,
When in the morning mist
Everything tumbles upside down;

When the motors swirl
Flies, trembling, to the "Islands",
When it swirls so sweetly
From Rederer head! ..

Have you a passionate hand
Not a hundred years old
On May Day gathering - red
Bubbling University?

Really dreamy Shura
Did not leave by the window
You have a short address for cupid:
"V.O. 7 pp. 20-a?"

Didn’t you admire
On the Sphinxes of Thebes couple?
Didn’t you kiss
On the Kiss Bridge?

Really white night in May
You did not roam the Neva?
I do not understand anything!
My God, how miserable you are! ..

1923