Saturday, June 13, 2026

The Waves Drifted Off / Задремали Волны (1879) — Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Poem


The Crimean Coast in the Moonlight by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1853


From the cycle "At the Shore"

The waves drifted off

The vaulted sky clear;

Moonlight shines across

Water azure.


The silver tipped sea

Terribly aflame..

Thus joy does sorry

Things brighten again.


Oreanda
May 1879


Из цикла «У берегов»

Задремали волны,

Ясен неба свод;

Светит месяц полный

Над лазурью вод.


Серебрится море,

Трепетно горит...

Так и радость горе

Ярко озарит.


Орианда
Май 1879


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Translation by Lottie Bailey (@Medesikasta)

SOURCES: 

Poem: К. Р. Избранное : Стихотворения, переводы, драмы, ed. by Evgeni Osetrov

Aivazovsky



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