Bored And Sad Poem by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Bored And Sad

Rating: 2.9


It's boring and sad, and there's no one around
In times of my spirit's travail...
Desires!...What use is our vain and eternal desire?..
While years pass on by - all the best years!

To love...but love whom?.. a short love is vexing,
And permanent love's just a myth.
Perhaps look within? - The past's left no trace:
All trivial, joys and distress...

What good are the passions? For sooner or later
Their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up;
And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard,-
Is stupid and empty - a joke...

COMMENTS OF THE POEM

I've been on like 70 different websites and this is literally the only mildy decent poem in the entire universe

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Dillian Hansen 27 August 2018

Are you upset at everything?

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Frank Adie 07 January 2018

Very deep! Life can be sometimes sad and empty. And in such moment the mind can create something like this, I feel you.

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Frank Adie 07 January 2018

Really deep. Life can be sometimes empty and boring. Nice poem.

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Sue Ann Simar 21 January 2007

I feel I've read better translations of Lermontov

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