POEMS

BY

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Translated from the Russian, with Introduction and Notes

BY

IVAN PANIN

BOSTON

CUPPLES AND HURD

94 BOYLSTON STREET

1888

TO
MRS. JOHN L. GARDNER,
WHO WAS THE FIRST TO RECOGNIZE HELPFULLY
WHATEVER MERIT THERE IS IN
THIS BOOK.

CONTENTS

Bibliographical Preface    9

Introduction.

I. Poetic Ideal   15

II. Inner Life   28

III. General Characteristics   38


Autobiographical Poems.

Mon Portrait   59
My Pedigree   61
My Monument   64
My Muse   66
My Demon   67
Regret   69
Reminiscence   70
Elegy   72
Resurrection   73
The Prophet   74

Narrative Poems.

The Outcast   79
The Black Shawl   82
The Roussalka   84
The Cossak   87
[Pg 5]The Drowned   90

Poems of Nature.

The Birdlet   97
The Cloud   98
The North Wind   99
Winter Morning 100
Winter Evening 102
The Winter-road 104

Poems of Love.

The Storm-Maid 109
The Bard 110
Spanish Love-Song 111
Love 113
Jealousy 114
In an Album 116
The Awaking 117
Elegy ...