by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Translation Singable translation by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954)

Quanto si gode, lieta e ben contesta
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT FRE LIT
Quanto si gode, lieta e ben contesta
di fior, sopra' crin d'or d'una, grillanda;
che l'altro inanzi l'uno all' altro manda,
come ch'il primo sia a baciar la testa!

Contenta è tutto il giorno quella vesta
che serra 'l petto, e poi par che si spanda;
e quel c'oro filato si domanda
le guanci, e 'l collo di toccar non resta.

Ma più lieto quel nastro par che goda,
dorato in punta, con sì fatte sempre,
che preme e tocca il petto ch'egli allaccia.

E la schietta cintura che s'annoda.
Mi par dir seco: qui vo' stringier sempre!
Or che farebbon dunche le mie braccia?

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Net radostnej vesyologo zanyat`ya
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Italian (Italiano) 
Net radostnej vesyologo zanyat`ya:
Po zlatu kos czvetam napereboj
Soprikasat`sya s miloj golovoj
I l`nut` lobzan`em vsyudu bez iz``yat`ya!

I skol`ko naslazhdeniya dlya plat`ya
Szhimat` ej stan i nispadat` volnoj,
I kak otradno setke zolotoj
Eyo lanity' zaklyuchat` v ob``yat`ya!

Eshhyo nezhnej naryadnoj lenty' vyaz`,
Blestya uzornoj vy'shivkoj svoeyu,
Smy'kaetsya vkrug persej molody'x.

A chisty'j poyas, laskovo viyas`,
Kak budto shepchet: «ne rasstanus` s neyu...»
O, skol`ko dela zdes` dlya ruk moix!

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