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 Introduction. I. POETIC IDEAL II. INNER LIFE III. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Autobiographical Poems. MON PORTRAIT MY PEDIGREE MY MONUMENT MY MUSE MY DEMON REGRET REMINISCENCE ELEGY RESURRECTION THE PROPHET Narrative Poems. THE OUTCAST THE BLACK SHAWL THE ROUSSALKA THE COSSAK THE DROWNED Poems of Nature. THE BIRDLET THE CLOUD THE NORTH WIND WINTER MORNING WINTER EVENING THE WINTER-ROAD Poems of Love. THE STORM-MAID THE BARD SPANISH LOVE-SONG LOVE JEALOUSY IN AN ALBUM THE AWAKING ELEGY FIRST LOVE ELEGY THE BURNT LETTER "SING NOT, BEAUTY" SIGNS A PRESENTIMENT "IN VAIN, DEAR FRIEND" LOVE'S DEBT INVOCATION ELEGY SORROW DESPAIR A WISH RESIGNED LOVE LOVE AND FREEDOM NOT AT ALL INSPIRING LOVE THE GRACES Miscellaneous Poems. THE BIRDLET THE NIGHTINGALE THE FLOWERET THE HORSE TO A BABE THE POET TO THE POET THE THREE SPRINGS THE TASK SLEEPLESSNESS QUESTIONINGS CONSOLATION FRIENDSHIP FAME THE ANGEL HOME-SICKNESS INSANITY DEATH-THOUGHTS RIGHTS THE GYPSIES THE DELIBASH NOTES Preface: Bibliographical. 1. The text I have used for the following translations is that of the edition of the complete works of Pushkin in ten volumes, 16mo., by Suvorin, St. Petersburg, 1887. The poems form Volumes III. and IV. of that edition. Accordingly, I have designated after each heading, volume, and page where the poem is to be found in the original. Thus, for example, "My Muse, IV. 1," means that this poem is found in Volume IV. of the above edition, page 1.