Mikhail Lermontov. The Sail. Translated by Anthony Wood

A Sail, by Boris Leyvi
A sail glooms, a pallid shroud, / A loner in the blue of seas. / What is he wondering about? / Is nothing left at home to ...
Sail, by A. Z. Foreman
A sail drifts white and on its own / Amid the light blue ocean haze. / What does it seek in distant country? / What made i...
Sail, by Alexander Givental
A silver sail, the ocean loner, / Is lurking in the azure mist. / What has she lost in foreign corners? / What in her h...
Sail, by Ilya Shambat
A white and lonely sail is flickering / Across the blue fog of the sea / What does he seek in far-off distance? / What did...
Sail, by Alexander Hutchison
A single sail a blaze of white / through haze on a pale blue sea! / What does it seek on a far-off shore? / What’s left ...
The Sail, by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky
The lonely sail is showing white / Among the haze of the blue sea!.. / What does it search in foreign part? / What left it...
The Sail, by Irina Zheleznova
A lone white sail shows for an instant / Where gleams the sea, an azure streak. / What left it in its homeland distant? / ...
The Sail, by Dina Belyayeva
A lone white sail steadfastly glistens / Through azure mists afar at sea. / What does it seek in far-off distance? / What ...
The Sail, by Andrey Kneller
A lone white sail for an instant / Appears in haze of azure foam, / What does it seek in lands so distant? / What did it l...
The Sail, by Frank Beck
One white and lonely sail out there, / amidst fog and the ocean’s blue. / What does it seek in distant lands? / What’s...
The Sail, by Frances Cornford and Esther Polianowsky Salaman
White on the blue, the sail has gone, / to vanish with the breeze; / what does the sailor seek alone / in far-off seas? H...
The Sail, by Robert Chandler
White sail out in the bay / billowing in the wind. / Why sail so far away? / Why leave so much behind? Winds must play on...
The Sail, by Yevgeny Bonver
The sail is whitening alone / In blue obscurity of sea: / What did it leave in country own? / What does it want so far to ...
The Sail, by U. R. Bowie
A lone white sail that glistens, gleams, / On seascape haze cerulean blue. / What distant realms attract his dreams? / In ...
The Sail, by Yuri Perseus
A sailing bark is showing only / On the sea blue — with her white gore… / What does she seek afar, so lonely? / What h...
The sail, by Zinovy Korovin
The sail appears white and lone / in bluish haze of fickle sea… / Why it aspires to the unknown? / What has it left here...
The Sail, by Rupert Moreton
A white and lonely sail’s appearing / in haze above the azure foam!:.. / Where is the land to which it’s steering? / W...
The Sail, by Vladimir Nabokov
Amid the blue haze of the ocean / A sail is passing, white and frail. / What do you seek in a far country? / What have you...
The Voyage, by John Pollen
Glitters a white, a lonely sail, / Where stoops the grey mist o'er the sea. / What does his distant search avail? / At hom...

Mikhail Lermontov
The Sail

Translated by Anthony Wood

Михаил Лермонтов
Парус

Mikhail LermontovThe Sail

Translated by Anthony Wood

Михаил ЛермонтовПарус

Mikhail Lermontov
The Sail

Михаил Лермонтов
Парус