1907

• Gabdulla Tukay We Will Not Leave! 

  These people desperately want us all to leave: “This land is wrong for you, under the Sultan live,” We disagree, refusing to surrender to these lies, For every ten spies here, there will be fifteen s...

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• Gabdulla Tukay A Holiday in Childhood

  Childhood in his memory a poet keeps, Everyone has a dream, both bitter and sweet. Holiday comes, I wish I were a child, to laugh and play, The eve of Garafa saw sadness swept away. I recall how impa...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Immorality

  We have no respect for morale or decency, Hopeless we are, our souls are so shady. No better than a thief who hunts his prey, We’ve become cautious with everything we say. If one is bright but poor,...

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• Gabdulla Tukay A Chat

  At times, I sit in front of her, admiring her eyes, Her pupils dark, her eyebrows black, the beautiful disguise. I don’t know where she’s coming from; she knows not what I mean, Yet hours pass by, s...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Get Rid of Gold!

  Allah, God Almighty, let gold be cursed, Of all the earthly evils this one is the worst. Call for your archangels, whom you have to tell That this yellow metal belongs in hell. All the yellow shaitan...

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• Gabdulla Tukay From Byron

  A year from now, you’ll chance upon this verse, You’ll see, perhaps, this sad song run its course And ponder how the poet must have yearned To give his heart for you, he must have burned. Though stra...

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• Gabdulla Tukay A Mouse That Fell in a Bowl of Milk…

   (from an American newspaper)   I don’t know how or why, but this I’m told, A little caged mouse fell in a bowl Of milk, swam back and forth, could not escape, The milk was liquid, drowning was...

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• Gabdulla Tukay Shuraleh

  (A mythical horned demon, which inhabits the forests of Tatarstan)                                              I In vicinity of Kazan there's a village named Kyrlai, Their chorus is the mig...

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