| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | And It Passed by the Sea-Shore | | By Igor Severyanin (Pseud. of Igor Lotarev) |
| | Poeza Mignonette
AND it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower, | |
| 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. | |
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| And what passed there was simple, and what passed there was charming: | 5 |
| 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. | |
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| Then she gave herself stormily, till night shut her lashes. | |
| Till the sunset the queen lay, there she slept as a slave…. | 10 |
| And it passed by the sea-shore where the turquoise wave washes, | |
| Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave. | | | | |
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