Russian Lyrics

Russian Lyrics

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Russian Lyrics
by Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Russian Lyrics
Author: Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
Release Date: April 10, 2004 [EBook #11985]
Language: English
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Books by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi THE KISS OF APOLLO
GABRIELLE AND OTHER POEMS.
THE SIN OF ANGELS: A Novel
A COSSACK LOVER: A Novel
THE CUCKOO'S NEST: A Novel
A MODERN PROMETHEUS: A Novel of Italy. With a frontispiece

RUSSIAN LYRICS AND COSSACK SONGS.

RUSSIAN LYRICS
SONGS OF COSSACK, LOVER, PATRIOT AND PEASANT
DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI
_Author of "Within the Hedge," "The Cathedral," "A Modern Prometheus," "The Cuckoo's Nest" etc_.
NEW YORK DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DUFFIELD AND COMPANY
_To "A soul of passion, mirth and tears_."

CONTENTS
The Song of the Kazak................................ Pushkin Cradle Song of a Cossack Mother................... Lermontoff The Dagger........................................ Lermontoff Don't Give Me the Wine!..........(From the Georgian of Prince Tschawtschawadze) The Delibash......................................... Pushkin To the Don........................................... Pushkin The Caucas........................................... Pushkin The Cloister on Kasbek............................... Pushkin Goblins of the Steppes............................... Pushkin Under a Portrait of Jukowsky......................... Pushkin The Vision........................................... Pushkin I Loved Thee......................................... Pushkin Serenade............................................. Pushkin A Winter Evening..................................... Pushkin The Last Flower...................................... Pushkin Stanzas from "Onegin" Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer................ Pushkin Sometimes He read Aloud with Olga.................. Pushkin Love Condescends to Every Altar.................... Pushkin How Sad to Me is Thine Appearing................... Pushkin The Memorial......................................... Pushkin Tamara............................................ Lermontoff The Gift of the Terek............................. Lermontoff On Departure for the Caucas....................... Lermontoff To the Clouds..................................... Lermontoff To My Country..................................... Lermontoff To Kasbek......................................... Lermontoff The Angel......................................... Lermontoff A Prayer.......................................... Lermontoff The Sail.......................................... Lermontoff I Am Not Byron.................................... Lermontoff Like An Evil Spirit............................... Lermontoff To A.C.S.......................................... Lermontoff A Song............................................ Lermontoff From D��mon........................................ Lermontoff The Prayer........................................ Lermontoff The Palm Branch of Palestine...................... Lermontoff The Dispute....................................... Lermontoff Heaven and the Stars.............................. Lermontoff On Napoleon's Death............................... Lermontoff On the Death of Pushkin........................... Lermontoff Russia, O My Russia, Hail!........................... Tolstoy The Wolves........................................... Tolstoy Autumn............................................... Tolstoy Burnt Out Is Now My Misery........................... Tolstoy In Hours of Ebbing Tide.............................. Tolstoy Swans................................................. Maikow To Sleep.............................................. Maikow In Memory of My Daughter.............................. Maikow Mother and Child...................................... Maikow An Easter Greeting.................................... Maikow At Easter............................................. Maikow O Mountains of My Native Country!..................... Maikow The Aeolian Harp...................................... Maikow Ye Songs of Mine!.................................. Nekrassow In War............................................. Nekrassow A Song of Siberian Exiles.......................... Nekrassow Freedom............................................ Nekrassow A Farewell......................................... Nekrassow The Love Letter.................................... Nekrassow What the Sleepless Grandam Thinks.................. Nekrassow To Russia............................................ Nikitin The Song of the Spendthrift.......................... Nikitin The Spade is Deep Digging a Grave in the Mould....... Nikitin Gossip............................................... Nikitin In a Peasant Hut..................................... Nikitin Winter Night in the Village.......................... Nikitin The Birch Tree....................................... Nikitin North and South...................................... Nikitin Hunger............................................... Fofanow Faded the Footstep of Spring from Our Garden......... Fofanow The Beggar........................................... Fofanow With Roses...................... (From the Georgian of Prince Tschawtschawadze) The Stars........... (From the Caucasian of Prince Oberlaine) Whispers and the Timid Breathing.......... ("Fete Chenchine") The Tales of the Stars.............................. Fofanow One Dearest Pair of Eyes I Love................. (Gipsy Song) A Gipsy Song........................................ Polonsky At Last.......................................... Plestcheeff By An Open Window................. The Grand Duke Constantine With the Greatness of God All My Heart Is On Fire!.... Nadson The Poet.............................................. Nadson To the Muse........................................... Nadson A Fragment............................................ Nadson In May................................................ Nadson In Memory of N.M.D.................................... Nadson At the Grave of N.M.D................................. Nadson In Dreams............................................. Nadson The Old Grey House.................................... Nadson Call Him Not Dead,--He Lives!......................... Nadson
Brief Biographical Notes: Alexander Sergjewitsch Pushkin Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontoff Count Alexis Constantinowitsch Tolstoy Apollon Nikolajewitsch Maikow Nikolai Alexajewitsch Nekrassow Ivan Ssawitsch Nikitin Constantine Michailowitsch Fofanow Semijon Jakolowitsch Nadson

To the Reader.
The translations in this little collection make no pretension to being more than an effort to share the delight found in them; from which most of the world is debarred by the difficulty of the language in which they are written. They have been chosen at random, each for some intrinsic charm or because of its bearing upon some peculiar phase of the author. Very few of the lyrics of Pushkin have been included, for the reason that the great founder of Russian poetry has been more widely translated than any other Russian poet, and is therefore available in several languages.
Remembering always that Heine declared translation was betrayal,--the rhyme and smoothness have in every case been sacrificed when necessary to preserve the exact rhythm, and as far as possible the vigour and colour, as well as thought of the original; a task entirely beyond me save for the co-operation of an accomplished Russian linguist who has kindly assisted in the literal translation of every poem here presented.
M.G.D.B.

RUSSIAN LYRICS