On the wing
Selected translations by Frank Beck
"The Life Path" by Friedrich Hölderlin
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You too sought greater things, but the weight of love pulls All of us down, and grief drives us even lower. Yet the arc of our lives...
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"Winter Night" by Boris Pasternak
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Olga Ivinskaya and Boris Pasternak in 1958 It snowed and snowed throughout the land, A ceaseless snowing. On the table, a candle bu...
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"Autumn Day" by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Lord, it is time. The summer was so great. Now lay your shadow across the sundials, And let the winds of the field run free. T...
"The Sail" by Mikhail Lermontov
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One white and lonely sail out there, amidst the fog and the ocean’s blue! What does it seek in distant lands? What was amiss i...
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The first song history gives us
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While you live, be joyful; grief must know its measure. The span of life is brief; time will claim its treasure. ...
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