Celebrate our anniversary – can’t you see tonight the snowy night of our first winter comes back again in every road and tree – that winter night of diamantine splendour.…

But listen, I am warning you I’m living for the very last time. Not as a swallow, nor a maple, Not as a reed, nor as a star, Not as…

As a white stone in the well’s cool deepness, There lays in me one wonderful remembrance. I am not able and don’t want to miss this: It is my torture…

And you, my friends who have been called away, I have been spared to mourn for you and weep, Not as a frozen willow over your memory, But to cry…

And Pushkin’s exile had begun right here, And Lermontov’s expulsion had been “canceled.” There is the easy grasses’ scent on highland. And only once it chanced to me to see…

And as it’s going often at love’s breaking, The ghost of first days came again to us, The silver willow through window then stretched in, The silver beauty of her…

I think, the king was fierce, though young, When he proclaimed, “You’ll level Thebes with ground.” And the old chief perceived this city proud, He’d seen in times that are…

A widow in black — the crying fall Covers all hearts with a depressing cloud… While her man’s words are clearly recalled, She will not stop her lamentations loud. It…

You, who was born for poetry’s creation, Do not repeat the sayings of the ancients. Though, maybe, our Poetry, itself, Is just a single beautiful citation.

You’ll live, but I’ll not; perhaps, The final turn is that. Oh, how strongly grabs us The secret plot of fate. They differently shot us: Each creature has its lot,…