Songs
Ever weaker and duller beats my heart
Ауру жүрек ақырын соғады жай
Все слабее и все глуше сердца бой
Ever weaker and duller beats my heart
Lying compressed in my ailing breast.
Every now and then with fright it will start.
By day and by night it knows no rest. Read more »
Do you remember your youth, my friend,
Есіңде бар ма жас күнің
Ты помнишь ли юность друг
Do you remember your youth, my friend,
When your blood was fiery hot?
You were drunk with life, you had joy without end,
All strangers were friends, all foes forgot. Read more »
Day after day falls behind.
Күн артынан күн туар
Дни за днями чредой
Day after day falls behind.
No peace in the world can I find.
Thought follows thought in my mind
Swifter than any wind.
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
White
Қыс
Зима
Broad-shouldered, white-coated, powdered with snow,
Blind and dumb, with a great big silvery beard,
Grandad Winter plods on with a frown on his brow,
By everything living hated and feared. Read more »
Autumn
Күз
Осень
The clouds are grey and gloomy, boding rain.
An autumn mist envelops the bare earth.
Chasing each other through the spacious plain,
To warm themselves, run foals of last year’s birth. Read more »
A man is clad in mourning, he is stricken,
Біреудің кісісі өлсе, қаралы –ол
Если умер близкий – скорбен человек
A man is clad in mourning, he is stricken,
He mourns the death of someone dear to him.
His heart is wounded, bleeding, yet he’s singing,
It is a mournful song, but still he sings. Read more »