Pushkin Translation Poem by Michael Burch

I Loved You
by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I loved you... perhaps I love you still...
perhaps for a while such emotions may remain.
But please don't let my feelings trouble you;
I do not wish to cause you further pain.

I loved you... thus the hopelessness I knew...
The jealousy, the diffidence, the pain
resulted in two hearts so wholly true
the gods might grant us leave to love again.