«I am choiceness of Russian, so stately of mien, / The poets before me my heralds have been, / I the first in this tongue subtle byways revealed, / Strains tuneful, and wrathful and wistful I wield. I, — a rending asunder, / I, — a sporting of thunder, / ...»
«I questioned with fetterless breezes, / How with youth to accomplish my days; / I was answered by dallying breezes: / "Be thou airy as breezes, as haze !" I questioned with dominant ocean, / Where life's mighty behest to descry; / I was answered by resonant ocean: / "Be thou ever full-s...»
«When midnight has come on the desolate slough, / Scarce heard are the reeds, so softly they sough. Of what do they whisper and talk to and fro? / For what are the flamelets amongst them aglow? They shimmer, they glimmer, and once more they wane, / Then the wandering light is enkindled again....»
«I came into this world to see the sunshine, / The sky-line's bluish lights. / I came into this world to see the sunshine, / And mountain-heights. I came into this world to see the ocean, / The valley's rich array. / I in a single gaze saw worlds in mo...»