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Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems
- I Shall Soon Fall Prey To Rot I shall soon fall prey to ...
- Morning You're unhappy, sick at heart: Oh, I know it-here ...
- In War Hearing the terrors of the war, sore troubled, By ...
- The Songs Of Siberian Exiles We stand unbroken in our ...
- The Love Letter Letter of love so strangely thrilling With ...
- A Farewell Farewell! Forget the days of trial, Of grudge, ...
- On The Day Of Gogol's Death How blessed's the good-natured ...
Nekrasov was a Russian poet and journalist. His first collection of poems - Dreams and Sounds was published in 1840. His second collection The Poems of Nikolay Nekrasov (1856) brought him great success.
In 1847-1866 he held the post of the editor-publisher of the magazine "Sovremennik" ("Contemporary"). His writings represented the life of common people of cities, the life of Russian peasantry, and the destiny of Russian women. His poems Red-Nosed Frost Grandfather (1864), Russian Women (1871-1872), Who lives happy in the Russia(1866-1876).
Nekrasov's poetry was closely connected with folklore and had a great influence upon the Russian literature. ... more »
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I Shall Soon Fall Prey To Rot
I shall soon fall prey to rot.
Though it's hard to die, it's good to die;
I shall ask for no one's pity,
And there's no one who would pity me.
With my lyre I won no glory
For my noble family name;
And I die as distant from my people
As the day that I began to live.
Ties of friendship, unions of the heart-
All are broken: from my youth,
Fate has sent me foes implacable,
While my friends all perished in the struggle.
Their prophetic songs were left unfinished,
They fell victim to misfortune, were betrayed
In the bloom of life; and now their ...
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