Mikhail Lermontov
- Captive Knight, by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Silent I sit by the prison's high window, /
Where through the bars the blue heavens are breaking. /
Flecks in the azure, the free birds are playin...
- The Captive Knight, by Yevgeny Bonver
By a loophole, I sit in my prison, /
Could see the blue of the heaven from there, /
I feel sharp pain and a shame at the vision /
Of heedless bi...