Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.
And It Passed by the Sea-ShoreIgor Severyanin (Pseud. of Igor Lotarev)
Poeza Mignonette
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Where the city barouches only rarely are seen….
There the queen played her Chopin in the high palace tower,
And there, listening to Chopin, the young page loved the queen.
The fair page cut the pomegranate as red as her dreams,
Then the queen gave him half thereof, with graces disarming,
She outwearied and loved him in sonata-sweet themes.
Till the sunset the queen lay, there she slept as a slave….
And it passed by the sea-shore where the turquoise wave washes,
Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave.