«Five years have passed — and now the wounds inflicted / By cruel war have just begun to heal. / And now my Russia’s / fields unconstricted / Succumb again to quiet’s frigid feel. Through darkness of the seaside night the beacons / D...»
«The day is clear and cold. The sun has risen early. / Resign yourself, now, winter — soon the spring is here. / And through the misty veil of February, thin and surly, / From under shielding hands now at the sun I peer. Now crimson and triumphantly it has ascended — / Unbidden, dazzled ...»
«Beneath the azure heaven of her native land / She festered and began to wither… / And having withered, then she flew above me and / Her shadow soon was heading thither; / But now between us stretched a line we couldn’t cross. / In vain I then besti...»
« …Life again has brought / Me to the patch of earth where once I spent / A brace of unobtrusive summers’ exile. / And since that time a decade’s passed already — / And many have the changes been for me, / And I myself, to common law subservient, / Have changed as well....»