Author:Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov

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Dmitri N. Smirnov (1948—)

Dmitri Smirnov (Дмитрий Смирнов) is a Russian and British composer, and translator.

Dmitri N. Smirnov

Works

English translations

Baratynsky:

1. Sacred song heals the sick spirit

Bashō

1. Рiping autumn wind
2. Clouds will separate us
3. Spider, say again
4. Soon they have to die

Derzhavin:

1. Time's river in its rushing current

Kharms: (moved to Wikilivres)

1. Blue notebook No. 10
2. Four illustrations of that how a new idea strikes a person unprepared for it

Khayyám:

1. Where have we come from? Where are we going?
2. What is the benefit of our arrival and departure?
3. The Rose said: “Oh, my most radiant beauty
4. What do you mean to the world? – Nothing!

Khlebnikov

1. Invocation by Laughter

Lermontov: (See also Wikilivres)

1. Farewell, farewell, unwashed Russia
2. The Sail
3. The Pine Tree
4. From beneath a mysterious and ice-cold half-mask

Mandelstam: (See also Wikilivres)

• The careful and muted sound, 1908
• The Christmas trees are shining, 1908
• From the semi-dark hall, 1908
• To read only children's books, 1908
• More tender than tender, 1909
• I'm given a body – what to do with it?, 1909
• Up out of an evil clinging pool, 1910
• A meagre beam in a cold measure, 1911
• The dull air is moist and resounding, 1911
• Hagia Sophia, 1912
• Insomnia. Homer. The rows of stretched sails, 1915.

1. A meagre beam in a cold measure → Wikilivres
2. And I go out from space → Wikilivres
3. And Schubert on the water, and Mozart in the bird's hubbub → Wikilivres
4. And the toothed paw of the maple tree → Wikilivres
5. Blok – a king → Wikilivres
6. Do you remember runners in → Wikilivres
7. Eyelashes are stinging. Tear took a fancy to the chest → Wikilivres
8. The Fly → Wikilivres
9. From needle-shaped pestilential glasses → Wikilivres
10. From the semi-dark hall, suddenly → Wikilivres
11. Hagia Sophia → Wikilivres
12. Help me, The Lord, to live through the night → Wikilivres
13. I'm given a body — what to do with it? → Wikilivres
14. I love the uprise of a texture (1) → Wikilivres
15. I love the uprise of a texture (2) → Wikilivres
16. Insomnia. Homer. The rows of stretched sails → Wikilivres
17. More tender than tender
18. No, it is not a migraine, but pass me a pencil of menthol
19. O butterfly, O Moslem-woman → Wikilivres
20. O let me go, Voronezh, O return me → Wikilivres
21. Overcoming the firmness of nature → Wikilivres
22. O, we are so afraid, I and you → Wikilivres
23. Sisters heaviness and tenderness — your signs are the same → Wikilivres
24. Stalin Epigram → Wikilivres
25. Telephone cries at the door → Wikilivres
26. Tell me, Desert Draftsman → Wikilivres
27. The careful and muted sound → Wikilivres
28. The Christmas trees are shining → Wikilivres
29. The dull air is moist and resounding → Wikilivres
30. The Light Moscow Rain → Wikilivres
31. The tiny appendage of the sixth sense → Wikilivres
32. To read only children's books → Wikilivres
33. When after destroying the sketches → Wikilivres
34. You want to be like a baby toy → Wikilivres

Mayakovsky

1. But Could You?
2. Comprehensive Picture of Spring

Pushkin:

1. The Singer
2. Awakening
3. Elegy
4. The Horse
5. To*** Kern 1825

Tsvetaeva:

1. Di – stance: versts, miles

See also

• Wikilivres