List of Poems and Songs in Commentaries.
In its den, they stirred up the preadamite evil... — “To the Defamers of Rossia” by Alexander Pushkin.
Throw your blues as a cantaloupe rind!.. — “The war! what ye know about, comrade?..” by Igor Girkin, “The Dead Woman” by Rudyard Kipling.
Condemned to Life. — “The Captive” by Rudyard Kipling.
Hunting for Wild Boars. — “At present I’ve been through with battles...” by Igor Girkin.
Hymn to the Sea and the Mountains. — “The Sea and the Hills” by Rudyard Kipling.
The White Silence. — “Blow the Very Cold Winds” by Stanislav Slutsker.
This night the sea cannot relax... — “On the Death of Pompeii” by Alexander Pushkin, “By the Hoof of the Wild Goat...” by Rudyard Kipling.
A Pirate Song. — “A Pirate Lyrical Song” by Bulat Okudzhava.
The Storm. — “The Russian Columbuses” by Stanislav Slutsker, “Now we don’t hear the sound of the sea...” and “The Old-Timers Go Home” by anonymous authors.
Become a Seaman. — “Albatrosses” by Stanislav Slutsker, “The Beginners” by Anonymous, “The Ship” by Valery Belozerov.
We put out to ocean... — “The Submarine” by Anonymous, “Kursk” and “The Steel Fellows” by Stanislav Slutsker, “The Submariners’ Song” by Alexander Gorodnitsky, “A Good-Looking Girl” by Alexander Zharov, “The Tired Submarine” by Sergey Grebennikov, “The Canadian Memorial” by Rudyard Kipling.
A Farewell to the Mountains. — “Fann Mountains” by Yury Vizbor.
A Day. — “The Prophet” by Alexander Pushkin.
A Ballad of Time. — “The Cart of Life” by Alexander Pushkin, “Cities and Thrones and Powers...” by Rudyard Kipling, “Hail, guest, and enter freely!” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A Song about Hurt Time. — “Do work, dear child!” by Gabdulla Tukay.
The Dark. — “Two Roads” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Ballad of the Children of Books. — “Life” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Ballad of the Free Archers. — “A Song of Robin Hood” by Leo Prozorovsky.
On Fatal Dates and Figures. — “To Poet” and “For Memory” by Gabdulla Tukay, “The Poet and the Fools” by Alexander Pushkin, “The Fabulists” by Rudyard Kipling.
The Goner’s Song. — “I’ve outlived my own yearnings...” and “To V. F. Raevsky” by Alexander Pushkin.
Don’t ye fall into gloom nor grow heated... — “If” by Rudyard Kipling.
Alyoha. — “The Bridegroom” by Rudyard Kipling.
The Criminal Code. — “The Book” by Gabdulla Tukay.
We Have Gone. — “Slowly clouds float cross the sky...” by Alexander Galich.
The snowstorm is raging on the earth... — “Immorality” by Gabdulla Tukay.
An outsider will step in my soul... — “My Advice” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Gypsy Song. — “Gipsy Vans” by Rudyard Kipling.
ABOUT THE PROPHETS. — “A Song about the Wise Oleg” by Alexander Pushkin.
A Robber Song. — “The Hard Lot” by Gablulla Tukay.
The crown... — “Bound Rossia appealed to her sons...” and “The Destinies of Officer” by Igor Girkin, “Rossia to the Pacifists” by Rudyard Kipling.
The Wooden Clothing. — “From one to another thorp moved he...” by Joseph Dzhugashvili, “Love thou life, love thy own nation...” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Ballad of the Past. — “There the Nightingale’s Warbling...” by Anonymous.
There is no more beautiful country... — “A Prayer” by Stanislav Slutsker, “A Morning” by Joseph Dzhugashvili, “The Glory of the Garden” by Rudyard Kipling.
About Signs of the Zodiac. — “An Astrologer’s Song” by Rudyard Kipling.
A Ballad of the Bath-House. — “Sadness” by Gablulla Tukay.
It’s the most wonderful... — “When Earth’s last picture is painted...” by Rudyard Kipling.
One can easy get the works... — “One can love...” by Gabdulla Tukay.
About the Chinese Problem. — “Mama, mama, how shall I endure that?..” by Anonymous.
I lead my life in abject beggary... — “Yesterday and Today” by Gabdulla Tukay.
I can’t seek the oblivion of sleep... — “The Poet” by Gabdulla Tukay.
Now with no grin... — “A Mouse that Fell into the Milk” by Gabdulla Tukay.
He’d gotten whatever wanted... — “Against Gold” by Gabdulla Tukay, “Two Men” by Rudyard Kipling.
The Song of Goger-Moger. — “The Lay Brother” by Joseph Dzhugashvili.
There’s No More the Curved Seashore. — “A fir-tree, green and little...” by Raisa Kudasheva, “The Blue Railcar” by Eduard Uspensky, “Our Land” by Anton Prishelets, “My Village” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Strange Jumping. — “Road-Song of the Bandar-Log” by Rudyard Kipling.
The Nature Reserve. — “To Birds” and “The Poor Hare” by Gabdulla Tukay.
To the wood... — “In the Workshop” by Gabdulla Tukay, “The Secret of the Machines” by Rudyard Kipling.
My comrade now isn’t here, but... — “The Thousandth Man” by Rudyard Kipling.
The Song of Mar’yushka. — “The Love Song of Har Dyal” by Rudyard Kipling.
A Lullaby. — “A Lullaby” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Sad Love Song. — “The Vampire” by Rudyard Kipling.
TWO LOVE SONGS. — “The Comprehension of the Truth” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Ballad of the Flowers. — “The Unwise Moth” by Gabdulla Tukay.
A Dialogue in front of the Television. — “Calmness in the Family” by Gabdulla Tukay.
The Space Villains’ March. — “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” and “The Benefactors” by Rudyard Kipling.
A Lecture on the State of Modern Science. — “Raise higher your glasses...” by Alexander Pushkin.
Though I’m awake, I dream prophetic verses... — “My Star” and “Follow My Way” by Gabdulla Tukay.
It’s my fate — to the finishing line, to the cross... — “What Is Sweetness?” by Gabdulla Tukay.
The Event. — “Repentance” by Gabdulla Tukay.
The Monument. — “I’ve raised a monument not made by human hand...” by Alexander Pushkin.
The Appeal. — “The Prayer of Miriam Cohen” and “Non nobis, Domine!” by Rudyard Kipling.
I Write to You. — “I have eaten your bread and salt...” by Rudyard Kipling.
I’ll wake up in a morning... — “The Policemen’s Song” by Akbar Muhammad.
The Wind. — “If woman gets a thought...” by Akbar Muhammad.
On Volodya Vysotsky. — “The Appeal” by Rudyard Kipling.
In Memory of Vladimir Vysotsky. — “Atlantes” by Alexander Gorodnitsky.
The Poet’s dead! — a slave to honor... — “Death of the Poet” by Mikhail Lermontov.
Lived a poet ’mongst us... — “Shan’t Meet Again” by Igor Kokhanovsky.