Imitation
I saw the Death, and she was
By quiet entrance at my own home,
I saw the doors were opened in my tomb,
And there, and there my hope was a-flittingI'll die, and traces of my
In days of future will be never sighted,
Look of my eyes will never be
By dear look, in my existence last.
Farewell the somber world, where, precipice above,
My gloomy road was a-streaming,
Where life for me was never cheering,
Where I was loving, having not to love!
The dazzling heavens' azure curtain,
Beloved hills, the brook's enchanting dance,
You, mourn — the inspiration's chance,
You, peaceful shades of wilderness, uncertain,
And all — farewell, farewell at once.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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Under The Blue Skies
Under the blue skies of her native She languished and began to fade Until surely there flew without a Above me, her young shade;
Winter Evening
The storm wind covers the Whirling the fleecy snow drifts, Now it howls like a wolf, Now it is crying, like a lost child,
The Poet
Until he hears Apollo's call To make a hallowed sacrifice, A Poet lives in feeble thrall To people's empty vanities; And silent is his sacred lyre, His soul partakes of chilly sleep,
The Talisman
Where the sea forever Over lonely cliff and dune, Where sweet twilight's vapor In a warmer-glowing moon,