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...