SONGS OF RUSSIA
Contents | Preface
| Maxim Gorky | V. V. Bashkin | S.
J. Nadson
Nekrasov | Morris
Rosenfeld | G. Galin | P.
Polivanov | A. K. Tolstoy
M. L. Mikhailov | N.
A. Dobroliubov | David Edelstadt
V. V. BASHKIN
THE PINES
The dark pines by my window murmur low,
The wind sways sleepily their summits hoar;
I hear them whispering in monotone
Still the same tale—the same forevermore.
"In a sad part of earth we sprang to life;
In a sad land no happiness can dwell.
We by the dim gray mists are wearied out;
Our lives are drearier than a prison cell.
"We have forgotten how to wait and hope.
Here we are cold, and darksome is the sky.
Here we can only suffer and endure
In patience; here it would be good to die."
The sad pines by my window murmur low,
The wind sways sleepily their summits hoar;
I hear them whispering in monotone
Still the same tale—the same forevermore.
Contents | Preface
| Maxim Gorky | V. V. Bashkin | S.
J. Nadson
Nekrasov | Morris
Rosenfeld | G. Galin | P.
Polivanov | A. K. Tolstoy
M. L. Mikhailov | N.
A. Dobroliubov | David Edelstadt
| See also: |
| Armenian Poems translated by Alice Stone Blackwell |
| Acknowledgements: |
| Source:
Blackwell, Alice Stone. Songs of Russia rendered into English verse
by Alice Stone Blackwell. Chicago, IL: printed under the Supervision
of Charles H. Kerr & Company (Co-operative) |