nautilus - Popular Poems and stories from category

Взлетает ночь – пузатый галеон,
Чьи реи – руки, паруса – как крылья;
В какие облака утащит сон
Тебя

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,—
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings

For authorities whose hopesare shaped by mercenaries
Writers entrapped by teatime fame and bycommuters' comforts
Not for these the paper nautilus constructs her thin glass shell
Giving her perishablesouvenir of hope, a dull white ou...