Alexander Pushkin

SELECTED LYRIC POETRY OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN. SECOND EDITION.

ILLUSTRATED BY PUSHKIN’S OWN DRAWINGS

BILINGUAL EDITION TRANSLATED, WITH COMMENTARY,

AND A BIOGRAPHY OF PUSHKIN BY JULIAN HENRY LOWENFELD

NEW YORK, GREEN LAMP PRESS 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication i
A Meditation on Pushkin iii
Deliver me, My Talisman 1

MY TALISMAN 1
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET 22

I. SONGS OF YOUTH 107
The Bard 109
My confidante of magical old times 111
My Portrait 113
The Page or My Fifteenth Year 115
Eugene Onegin, Chapter 8 (From the Unpublished Verses 117
To My Friends 123
In the Album of [the Actress] Sosnitskaya 125
To Dorida 127
Epigram about Arakcheyev 129
Of foreign lands an inexperienced lover 131
Ode to Liberty 133
To Turgenev 139
The Country 141
To Chaadayev 145

II. SOUTHERN IDYLLS 147
The day’s last gleam fades out, is disappearing 149
Alas! Say, why is she so shining 153
The flying wisps of clouds are thinning, scattering far 155
The Storm 157
Grapes 159
To a Greek Girl 161
A lantern in a Jewish hovel 163
I have outgrown my aspirations 165
I will fall silent soon. But if, on days of sadness, 167
My friend, I have forgot all trace of passing years 169
A Little Bird 171
Fragment from Onegin’s Journeys 173
Night 183
For one last time, my friend so tender 185
Night’s soft breeze 187
By a noble señorita 189
Beneath the light blue skies of her own native land 191
Bound for your homeland’s distant shoreline 193
Invocation 195
The Captive 197
The Demon 199
To the Sea 201

III. RUSTIC EXILE: MIKHAILOVSKOYE 207
A drizzly day’s fizzed out; a drizzly night’s dull haze 209
The Talisman 211
The Burnt Letter 213
Wish for Glory 215
Scene from Faust 217
A Winter Evening 223
Iván, dear coz’, if we start drinking 225
Prologue to Ruslan & Lyudmila 227
My blood is blazing with desire 229
A Winter Morning 231
To *** (“A wondrous moment I remember”) 233
Confession 237
October 19th 239
Scene XIII from Boris Godunov 249
The last late flowers are more dear 269
If, perhaps, life should deceive you 271

IV. THE STORMS OF FATE 273
Arion 275
To Ivan Ivanovich Pushchin 277
A Message to Siberia 279
In lonesome wasteland freedom sowing 281
The Poison Tree 283
October 19, 1827 285
To Yekaterina Nikolayevna Ushakova 289
Epigram (on Faddey Bulgarin) 291
Three Springs 293
Bacchanalian Hymn 295

V. MEDITATIONS 297
The way I used to be, that way I still am now: 299
To Nanny 301
Oh spring, oh spring, oh time of love 303
Prologue to The Bronze Horseman 305
Town so gorgeous, town of beggars 311
Oh, blessed he picked with choice capricious 313
I loved you once, and still, perhaps, love’s yearning 315
Written on a Sleepless Night 317
The Flower 319
May 26, 1828 321
Remembrance 323
Rebirth 325
Sometimes when moody reminiscence 327

VI. ON THE ROAD 329
Let’s leave, I’m ready now! Wherever you, my friends 331
A Winter Road 333
The Cart of Life 335
Superstitions 337
Round Izhora I was riding 339
A country winter. What’s to do here? 341
To a Kalmyk Girl 345
The Monastery of Mount Kazbek 347
Oh beauty, do not sing to me 349
Dawn drums sound…From my hand tips 351
Delibash (The Turkish Captain) 353
The Cloud 355
Foreboding 357
The more we do commemorate 359
Demons 363

VII. FROM THE HEART 367
Madonna 369
What is there is my name for you? 371
Upon the Georgian hills there lies the haze of night 373
When in the grasp of my embrace 375
From The Tale of Tsar Saltan 377
No, I do not hold dear that pleasure so rebellious 383
Beauty 385
I thought my heart had long forgotten 387
No, no, it isn’t right, I cannot, I don’t dare 389
It’s time my friend, it’s time! 391
In mournful storms I have become a man 393
If not for something murky gnawing 395
Will you forgive my jealous reverie 397

VIII. AND I FORGET THE WORLD… 399
Near lands where sovereignty of golden Venice rules 403
May God forbid I go insane 405
The Poet 407
The Echo 409
The Prophet 411
To the Poet (A Sonnet) 413
Autumn (A Fragment) 415
…I came back again 423
From Egyptian Nights 429
When past the city gates in wistful thought I roam 431
Our hermit fathers and our nuns blessed and blameless 433

In vain I seek to flee and climb up Zion’s heights 435
From Pindemonte 437
Elegy 439
When through the noisy streets I wander 441
The Monument 443
Labor (Upon Completing Eugene Onegin) 445

EXCERPTS FROM EUGENE ONEGIN 447
Chapter I (Onegin) (Headings added by JHL) 449
Chapter I (The Pedal Digression) 459
Chapter I (Onegin and Pushkin in St. Petersburg) 465
Chapter II (Lensky, Onegin, Tatyana) 475
Chapter III (Tatyana and her Nanny) 499
Chapter III (Tatyana’s Letter to Onegin) 509
Chapter IV (Onegin and Tatyana in the Garden) 515
Chapter V (Tatyana’s Nameday Party) 529
Chapter VI (The Duel Between Lensky and Onegin) 539
Chapter VII (The Marketplace of Brides) 561
Chapter VIII (Onegin Returns) 573
Chapter VIII (Onegin’s Letter to Tatyana) 587
Chapter VIII (Finale) 591
My Talisman (Russian translation) 611
For the Russian Reader 632
Short Biography of thePoet in Russian 634
Alphabetical Index of First Lines in Russian 710
Alphabetical Index of First Lines in English 715

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