«Russia cannot be known by the mind / Nor measured by the common mile: / Her status is unique, without kind – / Russia can only be believed in.»
«Throughout blue nights / glisten mountains’ eyes, / eyes of death, eyes of fright, / by icy horror paralysed. / Charmed by some spell / till Dawn’s first beams, / in hazy menace they dream, / like all those ancient kings who fell. But let the East begin to shine / and th...»
«Skald-harp, long ago your poet-master / left you to oblivion in this dusty room, / but as soon as the moon, enchanting the gloom, / splashes a ray in your corner, / then your strings perform a magic tune, / like troubled souls in delirious swoon. When it breathes on you, what life sw...»
«Seal thou thy lips, to none impart / The secret dreams that fill thy heart. / Within it let them blaze and die / As do the silent stars on high / When o’er the earth night’s shadows stray – / Delight in them – and silent stay. Thy sentiments to none confide; / From those about t...»