Pre-World War II poetry in Russia. Night : a street
On the plain of Kulikovo ; Visitor / Aleksandr Blok --
A cloud in trousers ; A good attitude to horses / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
Me and Russia ; from The laundress. The burning field / Velemir Khlebnikov --
To everyone ; Once more, once more ; Trumpet, shout, carry! ; The one book ; Iranian song ; Hey
Lonely masquerader / Velemir Khlebnikov --
October, a copper-crawed cock ; Can I tell you my love with a portrait ; You twist your death in nooses ; The sky lies blue
A conversational melody, a good verse ; Mother sabbath / Nikolay Klyuev --
Winds, winds, winds ; For my sister Shura ; Field upon field upon field ; The golden birch grove's ; I regret nothing
Mysterious, ancient world of mine / Sergey Yesenin --
The streetcar that lost its way ; Childhood ; First canzone ; Moon at sea ; Fragments 1920-1921 ; The porcelain pavilion ; Pre-memory ; A baby elephant / Nikolay Gumilyov.
Pre-World War II poetry in Russia.--
The valley bleeds with Roman rust ; I am deaf ; Because I let go your hands ; Insomnia
Like grumbling Roman plebs ; Notre Dame ; Leningrad ; In this cool transparent spring ; I drink to the asters of war,
Where can I hide in January ; I hate the light ; On stony Pierian spurs ; Lamarck / Osip Mandelshtam --
So, I remained alone ; We do not know how to say goodbye ; A dream ; There is a boundary
The visitor ; Requiem / Anna Akhmatova --
The air is motionless with heat / Maria Petrovykh --
Holy Russia / Maximilian Voloshin --
A sultry night ; To love,
Storm, an endless instant ; The mirror ; Don't touch ; Moochkap ; As with them ; Let the words
To be famous isn't decent
The face of a horse ; Snakes ; All that my soul possessed,
The loop canal ; At the fishmonger's ; Nocturnal garden ; Poem about rain ; Popryshchin ; Yesterday reflecting upon death ; Metamorphoses ; Warning / Nikolay Zabolotsky --
Death of the wild warrior / Daniil Kharms --
Where / Aleksandr Vvedensky --
The tale of red-haired Motele, Mister Inspector, Rabbi Isaiah and Commissioner Blokh / Joseph Utkin --
Our grandsons will be astonished / Ilya Ehrenburg --
Fire and rope, bullet and axe
Pre-World War II émigré poetry. The horn of Roland ; To kiss a forehead is to erase worry
An ancient song ; An attempt at jealousy ; Poems to Blok / Marina Tsvetayeva --
It is an ancient custom ; They will not ask us,
Nobody waits ; How can I shout,
How do we break the habit,
Friendship ; The dull rattle of shutters
We believe books and music / Anatoly Steiger --
Another planet / Boris Poplavsky --
Our Sunday rest / Don Aminado --
Music ; Monkey ; The automobile ; The bride ; Dactyls ; On the death of my tomcat Murr ; A monument / Vladislav Khodasevich --
The winter sonnets / Vyacheslav Ivanov --
I remember the night / Aleksandr Vertinsky.
Post-World War II poetry in Russia. from Son / Pavel Antokolsky --
I saw it / Ilya Selvinsky --
A wish ; To my sister ; The blockade swallow ; Don't turn around
Indian summer / Olga Berggolts --
God ; Horses in the ocean ; The hospital ; My friends ; Coppers ; My old men are dying
Before the attack / Semyon Gudzenko --
In those years / Sergey Narovchatov --
The wind ; How to drink the sun ; For the tree to sing
The apple / Vladimir Soloukhin --
We came back late from visiting ; Rain ; The forest in winter!
The girl dreams of her lover
The path ; The sunset fades
When the parachuse does not open ; I don't remember him ; Eyes ; from the cycle "History". Objects / Yevgeny Vinokurov --
I do not like the circus ; Adam ; Has the time come
All grows old / Yevgeny Vinokurov --
François Villon ; I never soared,
Once there was a soldier boy ; Save us, the poets, save us,
A chill ; Fifteen boys, or perhaps even more ; Lunatics ; The snow maiden ; A queen ; I was so buoyant / Bella Akhmadulina.
Post-World War II poetry in Russia. Dwarf birches ; A hundred miles form the capital city of hope / Yevgeny Yevtushenko --
Mayakovsky in Paris ; The beatnik's monologue ; Striptease ; A new year's letter in Warsaw ; From the window of a plane / Andrey Voznesensky --
Memorandum ; The leader ; The fisherman / Yunna Morits --
A picture ; Don't bother about the news! ; The airman ; The oak ; The star burns out over the tree tops ; To B.P. / Aleksandr Kushner --
The winter of thirty-eight ; They killed the lad ; Nostalgia / Robert Rozhdestvensky --
The dry birch tree stood ; It's not when they leave
Do you envy, my comrades-in-arms,
Where are our horses, our black horses? ; The owl and the mouse ; The footsteps of an owl and his lament / Viktor Sosnora --
I'm no fighting man, he says ; The ginger-haired girl ; The eggplants have pins and needles ; Re-conversion / Novella Matveyeva --
For a long time he tried to survive
A lesson in natural history ; Everything gets forgotten / Vyacheslav Kupriyanov.
Post-World War II émigré poetry. To Shakespeare / Nina Berberova --
In superstitious panic ; A storm ; At the lighthouse ; The Andreyevsky Church / Nikolay Morshen --
The old man shuffles to the fish market ; Oh, how fastidious you once were ; A quarter century of exile has passed ; Should I tell of all the absolute fools ; Unharnessed, the white horse ambles along ; On the boundary of snow and melting ; Not so long ago, the world was complete
Only for you my tea roses ; The path I'm following
Claudia Petrovna / Yury Odarchenko --
Shall we forget the shiver
Emily Dickinson ; Ode for the dancing Khlysty / Yury Ivask --
Do you think we might go to hell too? ; A black bird
In the land of Schlaraffenland ; An instance of fore-ordained harmony / Igor Chinnov --
My murderer is no thief ; Amnesty / Ivan Elagin --
A Marated Bastilled age / Boris Nartsissov.
The new wave in Russia. The intellectual ; Murder ; I am in pain ; The last platform ; The bird-cherry was my wife ; It shames one to look / Yury Galanskov --
Precepts for city living / Vladimir Burich --
And I speak of cosmic things / Vsevolod Nekrasov --
Radio gibberish / Genrikh Sabgir --
They drank. They ate. They smoked ; They met at the Tagansky subway station ; A dike, a flower bed, a bare linden tree / Igor Khomin --
Suicide is a duel with yourself ; When the cry goes up : "Man overboard!" / Sergey Chudakov --
Indifference / Dmitry Bobyshev --
Poem about the blue horse / Sergey Morozov --
White on white's a flatness ; from the cycle Stone and sky / Nikolay Novikov --
Faceted grains of wisdom / Mikhail Yeryomin --
It has for ages been observed ; The peasant ; The working week comes to an end ; Now, at last, even Nikifor's a suitor / Vladimir Uflyand.
The newest émigré wave. Lagoon ; from Sonnets on the statue of Mary, Queen of Scots in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris / Joseph Brodsky --
In mass graves the bodies of plants / Mikhail Grobman --
Lake Baskunchak / Andrey Amalrik --
Square of the holy passion
A curse! Joy! Writing! ; The savage cold of Russian winters ; Hold out a handful of snow
Hurry, take pleasure in the oblique caress of rain
Drought, malevolent step-mother
That time I did not save Warsaw
A thing or two about childhood ; The Olšanski cemetery / Yury Iofe --
Hospital gypsy song ; The goldminers' waltz / Aleksandr Galich --
As if a quiet branch drew a line
from Secret notebook / Edward Limonov --
Behind the slaughterhouse, evening ; Farewell to Russia / Lev Mak.
