Dave Bennett Poems

Translation:

CONFESSION
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1825)
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Wanderer’s Night Song (Wandrers Nachtlied)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1780)

Over all the summits
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I Loved You (Я Вас Любил)
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1829)

I loved you. O, it just may be, this notion
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Translation:

ANGEL
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Death of the Poet (Смерть Поета)
Translation:

DEATH OF THE POET
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Deep in a desert, sick and charred,
On heated soil blown from a distance,
The Upas, like a fearsome guard,
Stands watch, alone in all existence.
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Their love for each other was mournful
Hidden was how they did feel;
The look in their eyes was scornful,
As love they preferred to conceal
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Mountain elevations
Sleep in nightfall’s gaze
Valley indentations,
Fill with peaceful haze;
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Your purest beauty I remember,
When wondrously you first appeared
Before me, like a fleeting ember;
A jinn of beauty I revered
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A sail, alone, on billowed waves,
Is flashing white through fog’s blue sea!
Who knows what distant lands it craves?
What made it leave its own country?
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