Shrovetide is a merry folk festival holidaywhich is widely reflected in Russian creativity. It is often mentioned in Russian literature - both classical and modern. If you want to read poems about Pancake Day with your children, we offer our selection. We hope that children will like some poem so much that they will want to learn it by heart. After all, it is from a small beginning of love for good literature.
Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden" (peasants' song from the play)
"Shrovetide is a wetback!
Come home from the yard,
Your time is over!
We have streams from the mountains,
Play the ravines,
Turn the tires,
Set up the plow!
Spring red,
Our goody-goody has come!"
Alexander Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin."
They kept a peaceful life
The habits of the dear old days;
They're having a fat Shrovetide
Russian pancakes;
Twice a year they had a novena;
Loved the round swing,
There are songs, a round dance;
On Trinity Day, when the people,
Yawning, listening to the prayer service,
Humorously at the bundle of dawn
They dropped tears three;
They needed kvass like air,
And at their table the guests
Wore dishes by rank.
Mikhail Lermontov, "In the midst of heavenly bodies."
In the midst of the celestial bodies
The face of the moon is misty:
How round it is and how white it is!
Definitely a sour cream pancake.....
Every night she's in the light
The path passes the milky way...
Apparently, up there in heaven
Shrovetide forever!
Andrei Dementyev "Forgiven Sunday"
I forgive everyone who can't be forgiven.
Who paved my roads with slander.
The Lord taught, "Do not be hard on your neighbors.
You'll all be made up by the earth anyway."
I forgive those who say kind words
Told me without believing in them at all.
And yet, as bitter as I was,
My gullibility was right.
I forgive all those who have wronged me.
But I did not seek revenge.
Since he's not infallible in battle either.
My arrow found someone, too.
Pyotr Vyazemsky, "Shrovetide on the Other Side."
It's about to be Shrove Shrovetide
A wide feast will boil,
And pancakes and tincture
Will baptize the baptized world.
In honor of you and her, Russia,
The daughter of Orthodox ancestors,
Builds mountains of ice
And walks day and night.
Games, frat parties,
Open your doors and open your hearts!
Raging tees,
Stomping snow by the porch.
Joseph Brodsky "I woke up covered in sweat.....«
I woke up covered in sweat:
I heard a voice say, "It's not all cat -
he said Shrovetide. There will be -
he said-- Lent.
They'll pinch your tail."
That would wake anyone up.
Eduard Asadov, "Forgiveness Sunday."
They're baking pancakes. There's a cheerful smoke.
On Shrovetide there's a feast everywhere!
Today in Russia, as they say,
Forgiven Holy Sunday!
…
- It's been said since ancient times,
That he who is like the souls of the righteous,
He who is capable of people around him
Forgive literally every sin in a row.
Tatiana Dementieva "With meat, cottage cheese, mushrooms"
With meat, cottage cheese, mushrooms--
These pancakes are so good!
It's Shrovetide with us
Seeing off the days of winter.
With song, with jokes, with fun.
Call spring, people!
And in a good mood.
Have a pancake each!
Tatiana Lavrova "Maslena broad guest dear"
Wide Maslena is a dear guest,
Having fun, celebrating, playing in the yards.
He's giving me pancakes, sweetheart,
Sweet rolls, fish pies.
The generous, singing Maslena-gulona.
With kind eyes looking surprised
To Spring, the ruddy, delicate beauty,
The blue-eyed sky smiles softly.
Goodbye Maslena, the cheese party,
Farewell, my lady, the red mockingbird.
The radiant sun is seeing winter off,
He welcomes his beloved Lyubushka with a song.
Tatyana Lavrova "Rusovoloska Maslenitsa good"
Rusovoloska Maslenitsa kindly
He's been out all week with a bang!
He bakes pancakes, pancakes, puffed pancakes,
Blushing like the sun. They're good!
The holiday is famous for its merry round dance,
All the people are singing and laughing.
Spring is greeted by Maslena the Beautiful.
Goodbye winter, see you next year!
Andrei Usachev "Maslenitsa."
Hello, Shrovetide!
Give us some butter!
We're gonna make ourselves some hot pancakes.
We don't care about blizzards and frost!
If you have a skillet,
We don't mind the cold,
Because the pancake is hot--
This is the best food ever!
That's not a mouse beeping,
It's not frost cracking,
In a skillet pancake
Behind the pancake, the pancake is squelching.
With herring,
With some caviar,
Along the edge of the golden
Crusty!
That's how Shrovetide is.
She gave us butter!
Two pancakes even appeared in the sky:
It's a pancake sun, and a pancake moon next to it.
One pancake is hot,
The other one is cold.
Get in the sky--
If anyone's hungry!
Wheels on the ground
The pancakes rolled...
Children, under the birch trees
Pack up the goodies!
The baptized world is now rejoicing,
Because it's Pancake Day.
Come on down, folks, and have a pancake with us,
So that spring will come to the earth soon!
Come on, have a pancake,
For spring to come!
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