Две ножки… Грустный, охладелый,
Я все их помню, и во сне
Они тревожат сердце мне.
XXXI
Когда ж, и где, в какой пустыне,
Безумец, их забудешь ты?
Ах, ножки, ножки! где вы ныне?
Где мнете вешние цветы?
Взлелеяны в восточной неге,
На северном, печальном снеге
Вы не оставили следов:
Любили мягких вы ковров
Роскошное прикосновенье.
Давно ль для вас я забывал
И жажду славы и похвал,
И край отцов, и заточенье?
Исчезло счастье юных лет –
Как на лугах ваш легкий след.
XXX
In vain in diverse entertainments
I’ve killed a lot of my life way!
If it would not destroy the manners,
I’d love the balls till recent day.
I love this youthful animation,
And cram, and shine and exaltation,
And dames’ attire, smart and proud,
And ladies’ legs, but am in doubt,
Since scarcely in the Russian lands
Three pairs of slender legs you’ll find.
Oh! How for long disturbed my mind
The image of this pair of legs.
And their seductive figuration
Till now disturbs imagination.
XXXI
Is there a wilderness or desert,
Where you, a madman, could forget
These pretty legs, and where at present
On vernal flowers they step?
Caressed in oriental comfort,
On northern doleful snowy carpet
They have not left the traces, yet,
Since loved to touch the carpets that
Were soft exciting lavish pleasure.
Because of them I skipped sometimes
The thirst for glory and for prize,
The land of fathers, freedoms’ treasure!
The happiness of youthful years
Has disappeared like their light trace.
XXXII
Дианы грудь, ланиты Флоры