RUSSIAN LYRICS
SONGS OF COSSACK, LOVER, PATRIOT AND PEASANT
DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE
BY MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI
Author of "Within the Hedge," "The Cathedral," "A Modern Prometheus," "The Cuckoo's Nest" etc.
NEW YORK DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DUFFIELD AND COMPANY
To "A soul of passion, mirth and tears."
CONTENTS
The Song of the Kazak………………………….. Pushkin
Cradle Song of a Cossack Mother………………. Lermontoff
The Dagger…………………………………. Lermontoff
Don't Give Me the Wine!……….(From the Georgian of Prince
Tschawtschawadze)
The Delibash………………………………….. Pushkin
To the Don……………………………………. Pushkin
The Caucas……………………………………. Pushkin
The Cloister on Kasbek…………………………. Pushkin
Goblins of the Steppes…………………………. Pushkin
Under a Portrait of Jukowsky……………………. Pushkin
The Vision……………………………………. Pushkin
I Loved Thee………………………………….. Pushkin
Serenade……………………………………… Pushkin
A Winter Evening………………………………. Pushkin
The Last Flower……………………………….. Pushkin
Stanzas from "Onegin"
Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer……………. Pushkin
Sometimes He read Aloud with Olga……………… Pushkin
Love Condescends to Every Altar……………….. Pushkin
How Sad to Me is Thine Appearing………………. Pushkin
The Memorial………………………………….. Pushkin
Tamara…………………………………….. Lermontoff
The Gift of the Terek……………………….. Lermontoff
On Departure for the Caucas………………….. Lermontoff
To the Clouds………………………………. Lermontoff
To My Country………………………………. Lermontoff
To Kasbek………………………………….. Lermontoff
The Angel………………………………….. Lermontoff
A Prayer…………………………………… Lermontoff
The Sail…………………………………… Lermontoff
I Am Not Byron……………………………… Lermontoff
Like An Evil Spirit…………………………. Lermontoff
To A.C.S…………………………………… Lermontoff
A Song…………………………………….. Lermontoff
From Démon…………………………………. Lermontoff
The Prayer…………………………………. Lermontoff
The Palm Branch of Palestine…………………. Lermontoff
The Dispute………………………………… Lermontoff
Heaven and the Stars………………………… Lermontoff
On Napoleon's Death…………………………. Lermontoff
On the Death of Pushkin……………………… Lermontoff
Russia, O My Russia, Hail!……………………… Tolstoy
The Wolves……………………………………. Tolstoy
Autumn……………………………………….. Tolstoy
Burnt Out Is Now My Misery……………………… Tolstoy
In Hours of Ebbing Tide………………………… Tolstoy
Swans…………………………………………. Maikow
To Sleep………………………………………. Maikow
In Memory of My Daughter………………………… Maikow
Mother and Child……………………………….. Maikow
An Easter Greeting……………………………… Maikow
At Easter……………………………………… Maikow
O Mountains of My Native Country!………………… Maikow
The Aeolian Harp……………………………….. Maikow
Ye Songs of Mine!……………………………. Nekrassow
In War……………………………………… Nekrassow
A Song of Siberian Exiles…………………….. Nekrassow
Freedom…………………………………….. Nekrassow
A Farewell………………………………….. Nekrassow
The Love Letter……………………………… Nekrassow
What the Sleepless Grandam Thinks……………… Nekrassow
To Russia…………………………………….. Nikitin
The Song of the Spendthrift…………………….. Nikitin
The Spade is Deep Digging a Grave in the Mould……. Nikitin
Gossip……………………………………….. Nikitin
In a Peasant Hut………………………………. Nikitin
Winter Night in the Village…………………….. Nikitin
The Birch Tree………………………………… Nikitin
North and South……………………………….. Nikitin
Hunger……………………………………….. Fofanow
Faded the Footstep of Spring from Our Garden……… Fofanow
The Beggar……………………………………. Fofanow
With Roses…………………. (From the Georgian of Prince
Tschawtschawadze)
The Stars……….. (From the Caucasian of Prince Oberlaine)
Whispers and the Timid Breathing………. ("Fete Chenchine")
The Tales of the Stars………………………… Fofanow
One Dearest Pair of Eyes I Love…………….. (Gipsy Song)
A Gipsy Song…………………………………. Polonsky
At Last…………………………………… Plestcheeff
By An Open Window…………….. The Grand Duke Constantine
With the Greatness of God All My Heart Is On Fire!…. Nadson
The Poet………………………………………. Nadson
To the Muse……………………………………. Nadson
A Fragment…………………………………….. Nadson
In May………………………………………… Nadson
In Memory of N.M.D……………………………… Nadson
At the Grave of N.M.D…………………………… Nadson
In Dreams……………………………………… Nadson
The Old Grey House……………………………… Nadson
Call Him Not Dead,—He Lives!……………………. Nadson