Mikhail Lermontov

• To A. O. Smirnova, by Yevgeny Bonver
  If you are here, I want to hear, / You’re absent — I’ve a lot to say; / But, mute, you look at me severe, / And I am silent on my way. What ca...
• When absent, I have much to say..., by Eugene Mark Kayden
  When absent, I have much to say, / But crave your voice alone; when near: / So stem your eyes, I turn away, / Confused, in silence and in fear. ...