Wait for me e mais poesia - Simonov

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Valentina Serova

to Valentina Serova

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Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.

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Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

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Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that would not  wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know
How you got me through.
Simply - you knew how to wait -
No one else but you.

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1941 

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Translations

in the order originally written

Links to the Russian originals are at the foot of each translation.

Hours of Friendship 1938

Comrades in Arms 1938

The Lieutenant 1939

The British Military Cemetery at Sebastopol 1939

"All through his life he drew the scenes of war..." 1939

"You used to say to me 'I love you!'.. 1941

"Wait for me, and I'll come back!.." 1941

"The major brought the boy out on the gun.." 1941

"Remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolenshchina.." 1941

"Above our submarine's black nose she rises.." (Venus) 1941

"If God in his almighty Power.." 1941

"Don't be angry if I write.." 1941

"I remember two girls at the door in the night.." 1941

"I want to say to you 'You are my wife!'.." 1941

"As I recall the year that's ending" 1941

The Hostess 1942

"With death an inch above my head" 1942

"Well may I curse in years to come.." 1942

Refugees 1942

The House at Vyazma 1943

"That's how we live, without forgetting.." 1945

"In a dream, I saw a wedding.." 1945

"With glass a thousand miles thick.." 1946

"You get from time to time a man.." 1946

"The sense that love is coming's worse.." 1946

"I buried love and doomed myself to be.." 1948

"I cannot write a single line of verse.." 1954 

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