Поэтические переводы

Порой, действительно, почти смешно,

дурачимся и это всё разрешено.

Я старею. Старею. Нет слов.

Я надену мотню от штанов.

Я не хочу расстаться с волосами?

Смогу ли кушать персик зубами?

Буду в белых брюках по пляжу гулять

и слушать, как русалки поют,

но они не будут мне петь и плясать,

качая на волнах морской приют

и расчесывая белыми волосами,

воду белую под ветер волнами.

Мы задержались на морском пейзаже,

с девчонками раздетыми на пляже.

Мы тонем, пока людские голоса,

нас не разбудят на небесах.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(Tomas Eliot)

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse

A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,

Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.

Ma percioche giammai di questo fondo

Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,

Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question…

Oh, do not ask, «What is it?»

Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,

Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,

Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,

Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,

And seeing that it was a soft October night,

Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And indeed there will be time

For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,

Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;

There will be time, there will be time

To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;

There will be time to murder and create,

And time for all the works and days of hands

That lift and drop a question on your plate;

Time for you and time for me,

And time yet for a hundred indecisions,

And for a hundred visions and revisions,

Before the taking of a toast and tea.

In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.