Aleksandr Blok

I�m Hamlet now. Freezes blood,
When the perfidy waves laces,
While love is first - and lives in heart
For her � the one in times and spaces.

Ophelia, my dear friend,
You got away by cold fierce,
And, Prince, I�m dying in my land,
With poisoned swords in fighting pierced.

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, January, 1995 - March, 2002