The Best of Marina Tsvetaeva

Part 1

• To Mother
• The street awakens. She looks, exhausted…
• Little World
• Before a Little Coffin
• Epitaph
• Lady with Camelias
• Terminal Silhouette
• In Paris
• Prayer
• To Asya (1)
• Books in Red Binding
• New Moon
• On Parting
• To the Next One
• Meeting
• Angelique
• From Four till Seven
• Easter in April
• Contact through Dreams
• Azure are the fields, where our dreaming had met…
• Hello from a Train
• It is true, is it not, that our souls are not used yet to parting?..
• Except for Love
• In the Winter
• Truth
• Another Prayer
• To a Growing-Up One
• Boy-Madness
• On a New Year
• Schoolgirl
• Tverskaya
• At Age Fifteen
• Drum
• Autumn in Tarus
• To Literary Prosecutors
• You walk, looking just like me…
• These my poems, written so early…
• Passing me by, as you walk…
• To Asya (2)
  • 1. We're sharp and we are ready…
  • 2. We — are the dressing of poplars…
• To Sergei Efron-Durnovo
  • 1. Such voices can be…
  • 2. Like seaweed, like branches of willows…
• To Byron
• How many people fell in this abyss…
• Thus to thirst life: And to be tender…
• You, whose sleep is without awakening…

Part 2

• To Alla
  • 1. You will be innocent, gorgeous…
  • 2. Yes, I am jealous of you…
• From Cycle "P. E."
  • 1. Clad in the golden dust of evening…
  • 2. When he did live everyone loved him…
  • 3. The leaves are scattered above your tombstone…
  • 4. Here's your roses — pull your hands toward them…
• From Cycle "Girlfriend"
• 1. You're happy? You won't say! Barely!
• 2. Under caresses of an ivy…
  • 3. Today was melting, and today…
  • 4. You were too lazy to get dressed…
  • 5. Today, around eight, dashing through…
  • 6. Just like a young plant sprout…
  • 7. You on your road pass me by…
  • 8. Under sun the eyes are burning…
  • 9. I'll repeat in hour of parting…
  • 10. Before a mirror, where there's fog…
  • 11. The clock — what time it is?..
• Insanity — and good reason…
• I like it that you're burning not for me…
• My ancestor was a rider…
• Sleep the rattles and dogs of neighbours…
• There is no day's temptation…
• The gypsy passion of parting!..
• Poems about Moscow
  • 1. Clouds — all around…
  • 2. From my hands — not a hand-created town…
  • 3. Past the towers at night…
  • 4. The day will come — a sad day, they say!..
  • 5. Above the city Peter cursed to hell…
  • 6. The rain of bells drizzles above…
  • 7. Seven hills — just like seven bells!..
  • 8. Moscow — what a giant…
  • 9. With a red brush…
• From Cycle "Insomnia"
  • 1. In a shady ring my eyes…
  • 2. In my giant city it is night…
  • 3. After a sleepless night the body gets weaker…
  • 4. This night today I am alone in the night…
  • 5. A window here again…

Part 3

• From Cycle "Poems to Blok"
  • 1. A bird in the hand is your name…
  • 2. A knight without reproach…
  • 3. You walk out to the Falling Sun…
  • 4. To beast — a den…
  • 5. Cupolas are burning in Moscow!..
  • 6. They thought he was a man!..
  • 7. Like a weak ray through black gloom of the hells…
  • 8. Here is he — look — tired of the foreign lands…
  • 9. His friends — do not bother him!..
  • 10. Not a broken rib…
  • 11. Without word, without call…
  • 12. Like drunk, like sleepy…
  • 13. Thus, O the Lord! And this my prayer…
• To Akhmatova
  • 1. O muse of weeping, the most beautiful muse!..
  • 2. What are people's wiles to me? Holding…
  • 3. Just one more gigantic flap…
  • 4. Mother's name is Anna…
  • 5. You repeat nobody. How many…
  • 6. You won't leave alone! I'm a warden…
  • 7. That from catafalques and from cribs…
  • 8. People shouted on the street…
  • 9. To the golden-lipped Anne — to a word…
  • 10. At the thin wire over oats' wave…
  • 11. You'll overtake the Sun in the sky…
  • 12. I have been given arms — to each one to stretch both…
• I'll conquer you from all lands, from all the sky…
• To you, my rival, I will come sometime…
• To Jews
• You, measuring me by days
• August — asters…
• Don Juan
  • 1. Under the sixth birch…
  • 2. Long upon the foggy dawn…
  • 3. Aren't you tired, after so many roses…
  • 4. Exactly — midnight…
  • 5. And this Don Juan had Donna Anna…
  • 6. And the silk sash is falling…
  • 7. And fanning in eyes of the coming…
• Above the church there are blue clouds…
• To Tsar, on Easter
• Stepan Razin
  • 1. Winds have gone to sleep — with golden dawn…
  • 2. Over Volga — night…
  • 3. And Razin dreams a dream…
• From a strict and elegant temple…
• Bitterness! On your lips, passion…
• Carmen
  • 1. Divine, childish-plain…
  • 2. She stands, throwing back the throat…
• Gypsy Wedding
• The first day I recall, ferocity of childhood…
• Night. North-East. The soldiers cry. Waves roar…
• Strong and wealthy have a hard time…
• Kornilov
• To Moscow
  • 1. You did not bend the shoulders, when the red-haired…
  • 2. The thief Grishka did not make you Polish…
  • 3. Liquid ringing, meager ringing…
• In vain, Cavalier de Grie…

Part 4

• Standing for homeland, word "Marina"…
• Don
  • 1. White army, your way's a high one…
  • 2. Who has survived will die, who has died will arise…
  • 3. Waves and youth — outside the law!..
• Hard and marvelous — loyalty till the coffin!..
• O, pitiful exertions of usurpers!..
• Either soldiers drove into the ground a stake…
• Like blood and sweat it is simple…
• The rich man loved a poor woman…
• I'm — now. You're — will be. An abyss between us…
• Dying, I won't say: I was. There's no pity…
• Like right and left arms, here…
• Inept and aimless is my time…
• Who didn't build homes with his hand…
• Cradle, that is wound up in red!..
• I don't disturb, I do not sing…
• From Cycle "Comedian"
  • 1. It's not love, but fever! Light…
  • 2. You can't be friends with me, you can't be loving me!..
  • 3. Your mouth is perfect for kisses, so tender…
  • 4. You do not hope — how I am merry!..
• From Cycle "Poems to Sonya"
  • 1. Who has left — let him sing! Heart…
  • 2. In the forest a bird chirped…
  • 3. The rain is knocking at my window…
• You won't chase me away anytime…
• To rule troika and guitar…
• That same youth, and these same holes…
• Who's made of stone, who's made of mud…
• I wrote on paled leaves of the fan…
• Two Songs
  • 1. And what to tome is a chilled fire…
  • 2. Yesterday you looked in my eyes…
• Wind, Oh wind, sweeping away things…
• I desire no love and no honor…
• Others — with eyes or with face full of light…
• June and July. Part of nightingale tremble…
• There's officer's straightness within my stature…
• Wolf
• To a Stranger
• O love! O love! In the convulsions, in the coffin…
• Either at dawn or at dusk, I will die, but on which…
• Happy New Year, encampment Swan!..
• Student
  • 1. To be your light-haired little fellow…
  • 2. There is an hour — just like discarded clothes…
  • 3. Evening sun is kinder than…
  • 4. The wooden load…
  • 5. We were like ancient ones, the hour…
  • 6. All magnificence of…
  • 7. On the hills — round and tan…
• Marina
  • 1. His dove to be, like an eagle!..
  • 2. Three usurpers' wife…
  • 3. Heart, betrayal!..
  • 4. "Your chest is redolent…
• From Cycle "Parting"
  • 1. So long ago thrown down…
  • 2. More sharply, more sharptly…
  • 3. With a dark olive…
  • 4. Quietly…
  • 5. Big you won't see…
  • <6>. With silver growth…
  • <7>. Your......features…
  • <8>. The final beauty…

Part 5

• George
  • 1. Eyelashes, eyelashes…
  • 2. O heaviness of success!..
  • 3. Celestial glow…
  • 4. The feathers from the clouds nodding away…
  • 5. From the archangel height of the seat…
  • 6. And I need no girl…
  • 7. O, by every wind…
  • <8>. With thorn, not with laurel…
• Good Tidings
  • 1. Into the treasure chest
  • 2. Alive and well!..
  • 3. Not hunching under sorrow…
  • 4. Over the sleeping youth — golden spurs…
  • 5. In the name of massacre…
• Return of Rain
• Into the ether…
• To Mayakovsky
• From cycle "Khan's Horde"
  • 1. The Khan's pollen…
  • 2. There is no trivet…
  • 3. Your trace is untrammelled…
• Praise to Aphrodite
  • 1. Blessed are the ones that left your daughters, Earth…
  • 2. Already gods' — not the same generosity…
  • 3. In vain, inside the promised branches hiding…
  • 4. How many, how many of them, white and blue…
• Youth
  • 1. This my youth! O this my alien youth!..
  • 2. Soon from swallows — into sorcerers!..
• Muse
• Without self-control…
• Thus swam the head and lyre down…
• Not for flattering chausibles, frocks of lies…
• From Cycle "Girlfriend II"
• From Cycle "Girlfriend II"
  • 1. Sleeps, merriment, your torment…
  • 2. Like in a precious chausible…
  • 3. A giant stroke of a wing…
  • 4. With what to deserve you and give back your due…
• Bethlehem
  • 1. Not with silver I came…
  • 2. Three kings…
• How comes into the middle…
• She is unusual all the way! Beyond power!..
• To Akhmatova

Part 6

• New Year's
• New Year's #2
• Over the mountains
• From Cycle "Snowmounds"
  • 1. In midnight darkness…
  • 2. Not here, where it's tied…
  • 3. A strange man, for all my rivers…
  • 4. I've magicked…
  • 5. And soon is the parting…
• Familiar! Wherefrom you come to our country?..
• From Cycle "Earthly Marks"
  • 1. Thus, in the meager labor of days…
  • 2. Not correcting the marvel to numbers…
  • 3. Ah, from a stark overlook…
  • 4. Hands — and resale…
• Hello! Not arrow, not stone…
• In empty temple…
• Inimitably lies life…
• Lethe's underwater light…
• Trees
  • 1. In dead ones believing…
  • 2. When drunk on insult became…
  • 3. To swimmers, in a circle light…
  • 4. Friends! Brotherly multitude!..
  • 5. Refugees? Messengers?..
  • 6. Not with paint or with brush!..
  • 7. That which slept without a vision…
  • 8. Someone is driving — to deadly victory…
  • 9. With what inspiration…
• Gold of my hair…
• Praise to the Rich
• Poets
  • 1. Poet — from afar starts a speech…
  • 2. There are the extras, the unneeded…
  • 3. What should I do, blind and a stepson…
• Words and Meanings
  • 1. You do not ever think about me!..
  • 2. The — palm in palm…
  • 3. Distance stretched out long with wires...
• Pedals
• Thus they listen...
  • 1. Thus they listen (to the source…
  • 2. Do not scold me for this…
• Dialogue of Hamlet with his Conscience
• Crevasse
• On the appointed meeting…
• Early still — not to be!..
• Moon — to Sleepwalker
• Rails
• Letter
• You that loved me with the falseness…
• The demon in me…

Part 7

• Into the gray spot — temple…
• Conversation with a Genius
• To Mayakovsky
  • 1. That the world would not die…
  • 2. Literary — not in it is…
  • 3. "In the coffin, in the usual dark suit…
  • 4. The lovers' boat broke against life
  • 5. Like only by enemies…
  • 6. The Soviet grandee…
  • 7. He destroyed many temples…
• Poems to Pushkin
  • 1. Scourge of gendarmes, god of students…
  • 2. Peter and Pushkin
  • 3. All his science is…
  • 4. Conquest…
• (Poet and Tsar)
  • 1(5). With other-sided…
  • 2(6). No, the drum beat before the dark brigade…
  • 3(7). The people's power, having overthrown the throne…
• Country
• To Ode to Walking
  • 1. In the century of giant…
  • 2. Here's he, sword of the dreamers…
  • 3. Growing cozy in sponging…
  • To Elderberry
• To Despair for homeland! Long ago…
• To The time did not think of a poet…
• To They cut…
• To Fathers
• In the world bellowing…
• Generation with lilac…
• Not a warrior of two camps, but — if occasional guest…
• Readers of Newspapers
• Poems to Orphans
  • 1. Icy tiara of mountains…
  • 2. With surrounding of mountains I hug you…
  • 3. If I could — I would take you…
  • 4. On the ice floe…
  • 5. With rapid speech — with stream of water…
  • 6. Finally I've encountered…
  • 7. In thoughts of another, otherwise…
• "It's time! I'm old for this fire!.."
• "I dressed the table for the six…"